Kichwas
Half-breed, still living despite WotC racism
Poverty, unequal distribution of wealth and resources, classism, racism, and ethnic bias and conflict, nationalism, exploitation of environmental and animal resources.Wombat said:What standards that we accept at this very moment will be labelled as Evil in 200+ years? Is there any way we can abide by the standards of that future time?
Many of these violate modern moral principles as well as likely future ones.
It doesn't work in 99% of all fantasy either. It only works in fantasy inspired by DnD -what I call Gygaxian fantasy. And even then it fails unless some editor came in and changed enough of the writing to make it match.Wombat said:The alignment system does not work for the RealWorld (tm). Don't even try to apply it. Keep it where it belongs, in pure fantasy books.
It also fails to work for most people's actual gaming environment.