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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: re: a new idea for alignments
Message-ID: <302@fear.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 18:33:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 18:33:30 1985
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Summary: Simple world views

In article <218@ut-dillo.UUCP>, darin@ut-dillo.UUCP (Darin Adler) writes:
> 
> The world of AD&D is simpler than the real world.  In AD&D, good/evil
> (referred to as morals) and law/chaos (referred to as ethics) make up
> a system called "Alignment".  The word, "Alignment", refers to combination
> of beliefs and actions that creatures in this world possess and
> perform.

I agree that AD&D shows a simple-minded worldview -- that's the
problem.  By playing with braindamaged alignment rules you are, in
effect, saying to your players, "Make sure your role-playing lives
down to this braindamaged game system."

But I disagree that AD&D's "good/evil" system has anything to do with
morals, or law/chaos with ethics.  All Paladin characters I have ever
seen were sadistic butchers, for example.  If a sadistic butcher can
be "lawful good," then alignment means exactly nothing.

> A Lawful Evil
> cleric would see that a group of Chaotic Good elves were diametrically
> opposed to his viewpoint, regardless of the terms he used to describe
> himself.

On what issues? Even in fantasy one rarely sees people so opposite
that they disagree on *everything*.  If two Clerics are out aiding
their gods by butchering peasants, would they see themselves as being
of the same alignment, even though one is butchering them for Christ
and the other is butchering them for Satan?

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		Robert Plamondon
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