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"Goodest of the good" and why Hell is a bad place
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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3220238" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>According to the structure you're suggesting, Lawful Good would indeed be "the goodest of the good". Note that this differs slightly from the 'standard' alignment arrangement, where all three have claim to the role, but none is actually the 'goodest'.</p><p></p><p>As for why the demons and devils live in such frightful places: choice. The lower planes may well have been bright and wonderful at one time, but the demons and devils have corrupted them over the millennia into what they are now. Where the fiends leave their planes and seek out new places to live, the effect is not that the fiends then live in nice places, but rather that those places are gradually blighted and corrupted by the fiends until they slide into what is currently called the Lower Planes.</p><p></p><p>(To model this, though, you should probably have some areas of the Lower Planes that are actually quite pleasant, but manifestly getting worse, and some places in the Planes of Conflict (or is it Middle Planes, or...?) where the fiends are starting to encroach, and which are therefore starting to slide.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3220238, member: 22424"] According to the structure you're suggesting, Lawful Good would indeed be "the goodest of the good". Note that this differs slightly from the 'standard' alignment arrangement, where all three have claim to the role, but none is actually the 'goodest'. As for why the demons and devils live in such frightful places: choice. The lower planes may well have been bright and wonderful at one time, but the demons and devils have corrupted them over the millennia into what they are now. Where the fiends leave their planes and seek out new places to live, the effect is not that the fiends then live in nice places, but rather that those places are gradually blighted and corrupted by the fiends until they slide into what is currently called the Lower Planes. (To model this, though, you should probably have some areas of the Lower Planes that are actually quite pleasant, but manifestly getting worse, and some places in the Planes of Conflict (or is it Middle Planes, or...?) where the fiends are starting to encroach, and which are therefore starting to slide.) [/QUOTE]
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