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So one player choosing a Lawful approach and another choosing a Chaotic approach to do Good is “moral relativism” if both are right. But one player wishing the prisoner to face the punishment for her crimes and the other sparing her of that punishment, with both being right, is not moral...

Let’s stick with the scenario painted. He has no Fate points left.

Cadence, the added aspect as I see it is that Player 1 likes a lot of the later additions to 3.5 that moved in a direction different from Pathfinder. In particular, he favours many of the late 3.5 Ed classes over the early classes, or the ones added in Pathfinder. He seems OK with many...

Hey, back to Fate Aspects. An example for someone familiar to comment on. The character has two aspects relevant to this scene, Defender of the Innocent and Why Did It Have to be Snakes? The rest don't play in. The scene was addressed before - a mother and child are threatened by a huge...

No? Let’s chat more about Her Highness below, in conjunction with her tenets. The fact that each GM will run a game differently is no different than the fact that each player will run characters differently. This is a key difference, at least to me, between a board game and a tabletop RPG...

I can play a D&D character for whom alignment has little or no mechanical effect as well. If I play a Paladin, I expect morality comes into play in either system. It is defined to the extent they know what the wind is. It need not be defined to the ultimate degree of knowing precisely how...

Not necessarily without alignments, but under the pemerton model that the player is the sole arbiter of morality for his character, and that all determinations of "objective" morality and/or the moral code of all entities other than player characters are determined through play, never through...

Once again, seems like a matter of degree rather than an absolute “GM interpretation of PC morality should never have a mechanical effect (or at least a mechanical downside). In practical terms, can I just chose no aspects if I do not want my character to be encumbered by these rules? It...

In the real world, the cosmological forces of Good and Evil are not represented by entities which regularly interfere in our mortal world, granting powers to their followers and seeking to advance their agendas. Hence, again, the real world is a poor example. I do not consider D&D alignments...

It so often seems like those not wanting "a single person, the GM" making these calls actually want to be the single person making these calls. Ultimately, if there is a cosmological "good" and "evil", someone must define the terms. If there is not, then by all means let the dice fall where...

So is Asmodeus maybe Good in your game? Can I have my Paladin be a devoted servant of the High Moral Path of Asmodeus? Or has someone made the judgment call in advance that the Raven Queen is Good and Asmodeus is Evil? if so, how can we tell, when any action taken by the PC's may be Good or...

Sadras and I, plus our gaming acquaintances, at a minimum. Bedrock as well, I assume, as you are replying to him. So you are asking the GM to cede his power to you, is that correct? Aren’t you the guy who unflaggingly argued that, by agreeing to play the game, we agreed to follow its rules...

Read the topic of the thread. It is “Do alignments improve the gaming experience”. It may surprise you to learn that “your games” or even “your gaming philosophy” falls well short of “the gaming experience”. You have repeatedly stated the player’s determination of whether the character is...

Plus, all these reasons the Dragon won't use AMF seem like great reasons for the PC's to use it against the Dragon...

I keep posting the same questions because you continue to ignore or dismiss them rather than answering them. First, to the statement I have emphasized - you steadfastly refer to aspects not being primarily in the GM's control, as having some ownership by the character. But you also continue...

I’m clipping the well thought out analysis. What that says to me is not that adherence with the Code, Alignment or what have you should not be done, but that it should be done reasonably. Where a judgment call exists, it should give the benefit of the doubt to the player. If, in fact...

Why must it start at L1? The characters meet at some point (whether L1 or L11) and begin to learn about one another. That's my play preference - I don't need omniscience of the other PC's abilities, personalities, etc. Let it come out in play. I don't want to hear "My character is very...

So it does not get lost in the verbiage, there seems to be a lot of stress placed on who gets to decide what is "LG" and therefore maintains Paladinhood. Why do we place such great stock in whether the character is "LG", rather than "NG" or "LN"? Is it because we project our own views of what...

So is the issue that the Paladin may lose his divine-granted powers at all, or that the rules make this all or nothing? A more robust system might incorporate loss of some, but not all, powers for a restricted timeframe, with the severity of the violation, and the circumstances, taken into...

If I am reading you correctly (a major ‘if’), much of your objection is that, if you set out to play an honourable character, then the character will be played as honourable, and you don’t need alignment to play that honourable character. To me, that answers the thread title in the negative...