The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Ryujin]

Alignment is Chaotic Neutral.

 

[Ryujin]

Gygax's original idea was, first of all, that there were only three alignments: Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic. And the idea was that those three Alignments would be morally Grey Religous groupings. So Lawful people would speak psuedo-Latin in their pseudo-Catholic religous context, Neutral people would speak pseudo-Celtic in their Druidic religous context, and I'm not sure I want to know what he thought would be emblematic of the Chaos religous tradition but I have my suspicions.

Then he expanded to nine alignments, divorced religion from Alignment and still kept it for some reason.

Basically, AD&D is bonkers.

As alignments go, I tend to prefer the ones in Palladium games. For D&D, as long as the players are largely acting in a way that I can tie to their stated alignments, I'm OK with it.

 

[Parmandur]

As alignments go, I tend to prefer the ones in Palladium games. For D&D, as long as the players are largely acting in a way that I can tie to their stated alignments, I'm OK with it.

I like it as used in 5E: a loose acting prompt.

 

[Cadence]

I got neutral good.

Can We Guess Your Moral Alignment Based On Your Taste In Pizza?

Pineapple on pizza = chaotic evil.

www.buzzfeed.com

 

[dragoner]

I... the idea of having it fit with the language of the nine outer planes just struck me for the first time ever. (Of course, I don't use alignment or the standard out planes anymore, but anyway, I'm disappointed it never crossed my brain before).

As Parmandur said, I use it as prompt, not seriously. Though to think of how such a strange, and intricate cosmology grew, it's impressive, though probably they were high, knowing the 70's.

 

[Parmandur]

As Parmandur said, I use it as prompt, not seriously. Though to think of how such a strange, and intricate cosmology grew, it's impressive, though probably they were high, knowing the 70's.

Gygax had a substance abuse issue when he went to Hollywood, but I don't think that applied to when he was making the really gnarly stuff in the 70's.

Probably he was trying to recreate the cosmological oddness of real Medieval speculations.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I got neutral good.

Lawful Evil, "Dominator"
Lawful Evil individuals consider their alignment to be the best because it combines honor with a dedicated self-interest. However, Lawful Evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents methodical, intentional, and frequently successful, evil doings.


Yep. Sounds about right for me.

 

[niklinna]

I got neutral good.

Can We Guess Your Moral Alignment Based On Your Taste In Pizza?

Pineapple on pizza = chaotic evil.

www.buzzfeed.com

I got, "I don't eat franchise pizza so I can't take this quiz."

Edit: Wow, like most of those questions/pictures, my answer is "Never any of those."

 

[Ryujin]

Lawful Evil, "Dominator"
Lawful Evil individuals consider their alignment to be the best because it combines honor with a dedicated self-interest. However, Lawful Evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents methodical, intentional, and frequently successful, evil doings.


Yep. Sounds about right for me.

It also explains your hatred of those bastions of freedom; The Bards.

 

[dragoner]

Gygax had a substance abuse issue when he went to Hollywood, but I don't think that applied to when he was making the really gnarly stuff in the 70's.

Probably he was trying to recreate the cosmological oddness of real Medieval speculations.

I get the image in my head of them saying "Dude, check it out!" As most of the D&D people I knew from the 70's, were also SCA types, pseudo-hippies. I think later, we more nerdy types took it over. It is oddly mechanistic view, it does sort of match with a lot of medieval stuff, though I am not an expert, so I don't really know.