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Exactly!

Off Topic: And that I totally agree with. When I taught high school literature courses that used to confuse students (and some colleagues) to no end. :)

Stop that! Now we are getting ambiguous already - and this whole system was made to get out of that. (Or seriously, I guess your system is probably more in tune with the rules.)

LOL. Thanks, I guess. Thing is, I was being sarcastic. Cause if that is what it is, I think it is crap. I do agree that it can be useful for casual gamers and new DMs, but it also means that us who sometimes want to be complicated weirdos need to go through every monster and NPC and redo the...

Epiphany? ;) Well, from what I read it seems this is the basis of the five alignments, now that I have seenseveral sources and had a bit of time to think: LG: Friend that you can trust to have your back G: Friend U: Stranger who can be friend or enemy, depending on what you pay the DM E: Enemy...

I really like the concept of minions, and will probably use them as written most of the time. But, I do like to be able to sometimes hide the minion status from the players. For example have an encounter with 8 minions, 2 standard opponents and 1 elite against my 6 players, where it is not in...

Your point is valid in a 3.x context. Not in a 4 context, where they have claimed that alignment doesn't have technical application like that. I was talking about alignments in 4th edition By the way, I don't really support the 9 alignments. My own take on alignments is that they are useful as...

I have played D&D since the very early 80s and confess to never hearing a D&D alignment debate regarding a superhero till I read alignment discussions concering changes from 3.5 to 4... So, for me that has not been a problem for the game as such. Alignment debates I have heard though. Lots. And...

Sometimes it feels like some people really work hard at not understanding what I mean. Or perhaps I was that unclear? In that case, I am sorry. Having both a Good vs Evil conflict and a Law vs Chaos conflict independent of each other is diverse compared to only having a Good vs Evil conflict...

I read "the good vs exil axis is what mattered from the start". I think "So why not have a system that encourages diversity? If one part of a system is the popular one, should the other part be thrown away, or given some extra thought?" I read "this system is how I always played anyway". I...

To me the real issue is not what the old alignments stood for. It is not whether the new system is linear or not. it is simply - "What can we use the alignment system for?" First of all, alignment is not at all important in character development for me. Both PCs and NPCs get their alignments as...

Of course alignment is not the sum total of a personality. It is shorthand for a part of it, nothing more. This is no reason to take away categories that people have been using. It doesn't add any new design space. And it doesn't really matter if people are interpreting the alignments in...

Thinking about it, I would not have minded a system with five alignments: Lawful, Good, Unaligned, Evil and Chaotic. That would have given me everything I want, and it would have been very easy to show how it was not linear.

Well, I think examples of those differences have been shown time and again in the alignment discussion threads. To me, there is no smaller difference between NG and CG than between LG and NG (or between any two alignments next to each other on the chart). To give an example I myself try to be...

I plan to use power cards a bit differently. The DM takes care of the cards in between games (I will probably store them in a few of my old MTG card boxes...) and hands them out at the beginning of a session, apart from already used dailys. As an encounter or daily power is used, the card goes...

True. I guess many of us assume too much. And I am probably one of them. What seems clear to me though, is that a system with five alignments is less refined than a system with nine. And, that there is no alignment conflict between law and chaos that doesn't take good end evil into the equation...

I don't think your reasoning holds up. You are assuming that laws can be "good" and "evil", which to me is a lawful assumption. From a chaotic point of view every law is sometimes "good", sometimes "evil", no matter what the lawmaker intended. A CG person would not necessarily reject laws, just...

I can only speak for the Swedish tradition but here it was very much so. It did happen during the late 80s, which was very clear to us who went to as good as all the RP conventions in the country back then. I confess to having been an active part in the crusade to make AD&D more about the...

An official confirmation of half elf at-will as encounter power: Here!

Agreed, alignment sucks. As all my D&D groups over the years have wanted to stay close to the RAW we always kept it, and many of us put a lot of work into creating playable, sane and generally popular CN characters. But I agree, somehow some people always had to go the loony way, which got old...