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The three evil alignments are "the most dangerous". The other six are "the best alignment you can be".

You were supposed to miss it. It was subtle. There was no rule, but the descriptions of the alignments implied that evil alignments were for enemies.

That seems right, and I can live with that. The three neutral alignments (LN, N, and CN) were also described as "best".

Next time I do an essay that touches on stuff like this, maybe I'll add an appendix of topics to please not bring up in the comment thread

That's right.

Mark and I both paid attention to pronouns when we worked together on Ars Magica. I would say that he and I were both inspired that that early collaboration.

Thanks.

Thanks. I'm glad that comes across.

We wanted a light touch so that players wouldn't take the massive amount of published Greyhawk material as canon that they should really learn

If it's an option, that seems fine. If it's a class feature, that's odd.

With 3rd Ed, our main goal was to return D&D to its roots, such as with Greyhawk deities and the return of half-orcs. By staying true to the feel of D&D, we helped the gaming audience accept the sweeping changes that we made to the rules system. One way we diverged from the D&D heritage...

I would give all PCs a little bit of miss damage with melee attacks.

Yeah, strange. 3.5 didn't make me happy in every way.

Glad to hear it. Thanks.

I can see that. The brand team needed D&D to have an identifiable look. That meant sort of going against the central conceit of roleplaying, that the world is what you and your friends see in your heads. PS: if you like my other stuff, have you seen the new Over the Edge...

Thanks. Your reference to the classic modules is well-taken.

And who doesn't? :)

I ran mostly dungeon crawls in the office. Monte had his own playtest group and might have been developing Ptolus. My dungeon crawls were nominally in my campaign world, but mostly I was trying to test the default experience, the combat rules, and the monsters.

Yeah, the game was designed in the 90s. The "spikes" observation is pretty funny.

The PH rules apply to NPCs, too. We used Craft and Profession primarily as ways to rate NPCs.