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I think it would be a mistake to think that everyone of the same alignment agrees on every issue or that everyone of different... -
FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
I also allow in my games alignment detection to be resisted by a bluff check (where the strength of your piety is a penalty on the...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
Well, I mean of course you won't hear "alignment" used. It's a technical term of art as used in D&D and broadly in RPGs - such as in...
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I think for the most part 3e did a decent job of describing alignment with the exception that the writers didn't understand or make any...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e? with Like.
It's actually more subtle than that. The story is told from the perspective of a guest at the table who is encountering the kobolds for...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e? with Like.
In 3e the average kobold had Craft (trapmaking) +2. In 1e AD&D at the time "Tucker's Kobolds" were created they had "average (low)"...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Tucker's Kobolds: worth using in 5e? with Like.
So, several things. Can the Kobolds make things that aren't represented by amount of skill implied by their stat block? In 1e AD&D...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
I disagree very strongly. That's not something I see playing out in my game. In my experience, being evil is hugely detrimental and...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
As an addendum to my prior response, in general there is no social, emotional or mechanical incentive to put "Evil" on your character...
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I would totally support a "Come to the Shepherd God" moment in a tRPG. Repentance, maturation, wisdom, becoming disillusioned with ones...
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@EzekielRaiden: The important thing is what this does to table dynamics, not the impact it has mechanically on the game. I have seen...
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I give small XP rewards for taking actions that advance particular alignments, destroying altars, holy/unholy objects, or restoring lost...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
As I said in my post, backstory doesn't tell you things that alignment does. The definitive example here is that each of the Seven...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
I think that Green Ronin's "Book of the Righteous" does a pretty good job of dealing with this question. I could also address this...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with Like.
Alignment is something that if you don't have you usually have to invent. It need not be D&D alignment in the classic 3x3 grid, but it...