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Originally Posted by Scribble  What would keeping the creature the LG alignment offer to the game? What makes the creature's alignment being LG so important? Why is changing it from LG to unaligned so problematic for you? |
Well, Gold Dragons have been depicted as paragons of virtue until now. They have been wise, forgiving, compassionate, and very honorable. While not every single dragon lives all the way up to the standard, they were the good (or at least Lawful, which in
4e is conflated with Good) guys in the draconic world.
Making them "unaligned" seems to be just another
4e-ism to make it so that parties can slaughter them guilt-free that they didn't have to kill anything good-aligned and an extension of the
4e-ism that anything in the monster manual is simply there for PCs to slaughter and there really aren't good-aligned monsters in
4e.
One of the most iconic of D&D deities is Bahamut, the patron deity of metallic dragons, who is Lawful Good and has an escort/honor guard of Gold Dragons. Is this to be just another bit of venerable lore chucked aside in
4e as being too daunting to new players or "not fun"?
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