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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 8041270" data-attributes="member: 6683613"><p>But you seem to have unusual ideas about what people are saying it is accomplishing. For instance, you're spending a lot of effort saying that it doesn't accomplish the goal of providing a complete description of how a creature behaves, when people aren't saying that. Consider the possibility that people like alignment because it <em>is</em> accomplishing the goals they have for it; they're just not the goals you think they are.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Centaurs, goliaths, firbolgs, bugbears, dwarves, snakes... there are lots of ways creatures can try the definitions of the size categories.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Is Orcus an undead or a fiend?</p><p>Is Juiblex an ooze or a fiend?</p><p>Is Bahamut a dragon or a celestial?</p><p>Is a half-dragon a dragon or a humanoid?</p><p>Is a dryad a plant or a fey?</p><p>Is a fomorian a fey or a giant?</p><p>Is a merrow a giant or a monstrosity?</p><p>Is a grick a monstrosity or an aberration?</p><p>Is a will-o'-wisp an aberration or an undead?</p><p>Is an ankheg a monstrosity or a beast?</p><p></p><p>If someone really wanted to, they could pretty easily launch an attack on the creature type system using your arguments.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The vast majority of the differences between good and evil are pretty obvious. This whole debate is focusing on corner cases.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But school matters <em>more</em> than alignment does. The wizard subclasses all care about the schools of magic, and the <em>detect magic</em> spell detects school, whereas <em>detect good and evil</em> no longer detects alignment. If "it doesn't matter" is a defense for school, surely it's an even better defense for alignment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 8041270, member: 6683613"] But you seem to have unusual ideas about what people are saying it is accomplishing. For instance, you're spending a lot of effort saying that it doesn't accomplish the goal of providing a complete description of how a creature behaves, when people aren't saying that. Consider the possibility that people like alignment because it [I]is[/I] accomplishing the goals they have for it; they're just not the goals you think they are. Centaurs, goliaths, firbolgs, bugbears, dwarves, snakes... there are lots of ways creatures can try the definitions of the size categories. Is Orcus an undead or a fiend? Is Juiblex an ooze or a fiend? Is Bahamut a dragon or a celestial? Is a half-dragon a dragon or a humanoid? Is a dryad a plant or a fey? Is a fomorian a fey or a giant? Is a merrow a giant or a monstrosity? Is a grick a monstrosity or an aberration? Is a will-o'-wisp an aberration or an undead? Is an ankheg a monstrosity or a beast? If someone really wanted to, they could pretty easily launch an attack on the creature type system using your arguments. The vast majority of the differences between good and evil are pretty obvious. This whole debate is focusing on corner cases. But school matters [I]more[/I] than alignment does. The wizard subclasses all care about the schools of magic, and the [I]detect magic[/I] spell detects school, whereas [I]detect good and evil[/I] no longer detects alignment. If "it doesn't matter" is a defense for school, surely it's an even better defense for alignment. [/QUOTE]
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