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Well, at least Crothian sees it! Why does everyone want to jump all over the players for playing the characters they want to play? No one wants to play a healer, so they have no healer. What's the big deal? Maybe more enemies should have a bunch of healing potions in their possession. That...

Most of these suggestions are geared around hitting the character despite his huge investment in AC enhancements. To me, the most likely result is a bigger arms race - you can still hit me reliably, so I need more AC enhancing abilities. We're seeing only one character. Do the other PC's have...

Hero Games has similar issues with psychological limitations (Complications in the latest edition). There are regular debates over what a certain trait, at a certain level, mean in game. What is a "Code against killing"? I agree that antagonism is not a question of mechanics, but of players...

You say the GM is perfectly reasonable. Then you tell us he will destroy your character if you don’t play in the precise manner he wishes, and make the game completely no fun for you. To me, the latter is possible only if the former is true. Btw, I second Nagol’s request that you edit your...

I'd have to say you don't find killing prisoners in a whim to be in keeping with alignment. From your comments, you demand the right to kill prisoners on a whim and you take great umbrage at alignment because it could impose negative consequences for such a decision. For example: I think...

I said your comment that role playing is reduced because the players cannot simply kill prisoners on a whim struck me as ludicrous. They don't want to role play the issues of taking prisoners? Kill all the prisoners. I also said I see no game improvement between "kill the enemy in combat" and...

I don't see the alignment riles answering every decision point, as you seem to insist it must. That would remove any purpose of play. The debate between, say, Marx and Adams becomes one of the best means of bringing the greatest good to the greatest number. Adams felt that was the enlightened...

Why do you assume every game I might play or run to be identical? The question here is whether the Paladin (or the Lawful Good party, etc.) has the Lawful right to convict, sentence and execute a criminal. In some games, they may have that right by virtue of the game's premise (they are...

I find that equally likely to GM's who use everything in their arsenal, alignment in the examples on this thread, as a bludgeon to ruin the game for the players. However, I also find your example bizarre, as Imaro has already noted. They either took special steps to keep the prisoner alive...

This seems much less like an alignment issue and much more like a role playing issue. The player wants to be able to kill helpless prisoners on a whim, and does not want anything precluding him from doing so. Like that pesky role playing of someone who actually respects life and considers...

I would question why it is acceptable to kill the enemy in combat and acceptable for capital punishment to be meted out, but not acceptable for the Paladin to mete out that punishment. However, I can also see the GM's reasoning. It should then be consistent with the game world - executing...

Really? You've never heard the term "bleeding heart liberal" applied to those who favour a stronger social safety net? The US has not, in fact, had huge debates over ObamaCare providing better medical coverage for less wealthy members of society, rather than forcing them to do without medical...

I find alignment provides a convenient shorthand, and an indication of a heroic motivation, or a villainous outlook, quiet consistent with fantasy source material. I do not need to agonize over real world ethical philosophy to play the game. Why take Gygax seriously on how to set a fantasy...

And we're back to needing a degree in ethical philosophy to play the game. No thanks. As indicated numerous times, I am not saying alignment automatically improves the game. I am saying it does not automatically detract from it either, and both you and Hussar have repeatedly said alignment...

If you have stated that your character believes in Justice and Compassion and the Ordered Rule of Society, how does he deal with a man who has stolen from a bakery to feed his starving family? The Law says he should be executed. Compassion does not. Is it Justice? This is the same dilemma...

Hussar Sure - I would say alignment one aspect of that ("the GM will adjudicate my character's consistency with his stated alignment"), and not a separate rules issue. I think alignment is an issue where you are likely to have a confrontation with a GM who does not necessarily rule in your...

One Fighter level along the way would get you one of the other feats as a bonus.

The length of the thread seems equally indicative that many gamers have found these issues do not crop up at the table and detract from the gaming experience to the extent that many of us find it beneficial to eliminate alignment either. If there were some consensus to be reached, either that...

So I can Summon one hawk at 1st level, which takes a round of casting time. It sticks around long enough to attack twice, then vanishes. Full round casting times provide lots of opportunity for spell disruption, too. You need someone between you and the enemy before you start casting that...