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You think rules light games lack substance but the only ones you've ever played have been made at home? Bold of you to make definitive...

Which ones have you played?

Then they'd be incorrect. That is not and has not been my point. I also disagree with your last paragraph but see no useful point in...

Absolutely no reason to think this is true, assuming everyone is operating in good faith.

I don't think alignment contributes any sophistication to moral thinking in play, for the reason that I already posted in this thread...

Agreed. I just think DMs are likewise not a different breed of human, and so the idea that they have final say over the character, even...

Don't ask me, I'm not the one saying they can't. Apparently we just have to trust our DMs, because we are in danger of not knowing...

If one plays with bad faith players, then I suppose you can't trust them to interpret their character correctly, especially their...

Why? ALignment is based on character right? And PC's have primacy control over their character no?

Agreed. It seems like a concession to the sorts of approach that Pulsipher criticises. I think it's interesting in that it shows that...

Good to interact with you again, pemerton! I completely agree that Gygax and Pulsipher are describing the same playing style. There is...

Which entails that it can't be anything but opinion, doesn't it? Anyway, I'm still not sure that measurement or metrics are how we...

I'm not telling you what you meant. I'm saying that there is a difference between player actions determine alignment and GM arbitrates...

I agree with @EzekielRaiden: there is a big difference between alignment is a consequence of how the player plays their PC and alignment...

But that wasn't what was said. What was said was that the GM decides what your alignment is. Which is a significant step beyond merely...