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From: morrism@ecn-aa.UUCP (The Music Man)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: a new idea for alignments
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 06:41:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 06:41:14 1985
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Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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Keywords: Alignment & Intent
Summary: 


	A good question comes up on this question on Alignment. But I see one 
big error in the discussion on Good & Evil Alignment.
	Lawful, Chaotic, and Neutral are the Alignments. BUT, Good, Evil, and
Neutral are INTENTS. 
	Intents are what we would call today morals. While Alignments are what I
would call actions to other people. Intent strongly affects Alignment. In fact,
90 percent of the Adventuring Fellows I guide seem to follow only Intent. 

	An example: A group sabotaged a town waiting for some raiders to come
in. The townsmen had evacuated, so the party just took over.
	Well, the raiders did not show up. But the townspeople did. They must
have sprung every trap. 1/2 of the population died.
	In any case, they saw the adventures and chased them. All but one 
escaped and he was caught by 2 people and told of his charges BEFORE they were
to escort him to jail.
	His Alignment was Lawful and Intent was Evil. He decided that, being 
Evil, he would start hacking at the two and make a clean breakaway.
	I said NO. His Alignment is LAWFUL. Which means he MUST face his
charges in a court of law. Evil, Good, or Neutral, Lawful means the LAW. He
believes that the Law is fair.

	Okay. Evil's Laws are different than Good's Laws. But he still must
accept the Law as a visitor of a town.

	So there is the difference between Alignment and Intent. Now, what do
we do about it?

	Dosvidania.

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