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Completely. Who says because they are published their use is compulsory? Lots of books also come out with new magic items and weapon types. That doesn't mean I allow a profusion of weapons and weird magic items in my game.

Just because I make a turnip stew, does that mean you are forced to eat it? The controlling factor here is the DM. If the DM feels there're too many prestige classes, or certain prestige classes aren't special enough, the DM says, "No." Very simple. Every spellcaster in my party was taking...

So if alignment's so hot, why have WotC not put it in any of the other games they put out?

Well, of course you can have pervosity without having alignments. That's rather the point. I'm not a fan of their being a game mechanic that will tell you definitively that something is bad.

Well, most of them are long term friends of mine and most of them are otherwise excellent roleplayers. Hell, I may myself be guilty of this. Who knows? So it's better for me to just remove the problem than remove the players. Least, that's how I feel. Former student, though I still have an...

Re: Can't live with them.... My problem is that mentality hasn't trickled down to everyone I play with just yet. A lot of them seem to very much have a proscriptive take on alignment. What they see on the sheet is how they act and anyone tries to stop them is in for a hell of a surprise...

Re: Re: Re: Beyond good and evil Thanks, this is exactly the kind of thing I needed. I'm curious what you do about the fact that upper level clerical spell lists would be decimated by this change? I've been thinking of including "Vs. Infidel" type effects; stuff that works against people whose...

*scratches head, with the furrowed-brow look of a baffled peasant until a brightness comes dimly into his eyes* Build a bridge out of 'um!

I think I wasn't as clear as I wanted to be in retrospect. Despite the poll, what I'm most interested in is how to balance a decision I've already made. Commentary on other parts of this debate is welcomed of course, but I'd love it if anyone could suggest what tinkering needs to be done to...

I was reading Monte Cook's (excellent) article "How dark do you dare?" (that may not be the exact title) in the latest Dragon Magazine, and it got me thinking about the role of alignment in the game. I've always hated it :), and I think for my next campaign I might do away with it. But I...

Probably because it's not that important? :) I mean . . . "blindly support," "why has no one questioned," aren't these kind of strong phrases to be throwing at a silly discussion? I thought this was one of those fun, conTRAVesy free debates.

Yup, though this is the first time anyone's noticed it. I use Australian native peoples' names and place names as appropriate for Koori names and places. My entire campaign borrowed freely from world culture in this way, though things things safely exotic enough that most of my players...

This is the first time in my 10 years on the internet and internet-like things where I've ever become a part of a sig file :). I feel so flattered. Me, I like new halflings. I didn't like transplanting hobbits (and yes, I know that Tolkien used "halfling" too), and I didn't much like hobbits...

I can see that I was misunderstood, though I'm not sure if it's my fault or not :). You seemed to be saying that games involving splatterpunk elements (or maybe focusing almost exclusively on them) were immature and bad games. I went on to list several things I don't like (gameism over...

I prefer to let people play the kinds of games they want to play and not judge them publicly for not liking the kind of game I like. I do not enjoy blandly heroic games (which is not to say I don't enjoy heroic games, I just don't find unchallenged heroism interesting), nor do I enjoy...

This is kind of frustrating to me. A mature label doesn't mean that the creators think that it's a cut above, intellectually or philosphically. It merely means that it's not fit for all audiences. Of course, labeling something, "Not fit for all audiences," isn't quite as sexy as labeling it...

Re: Re: BoVD Thoughts And, interestingly enough, I am piping up because of all of the, "People who like this sort of game are Beavis & Butthead or, worse, budding sociopathic terrorists,"-sentiment-laden posts. Like I said, I wouldn't enjoy very much a game where evil and good are completely...

I'm envious. The biggest scandal at my games is there's this one guy who's really annoying but his wife is close friends with the wife of the guy whose house we game at :). (by the way, if this was some serious kind of problem for you and isn't intended as a wacky story, let me apologize up front)

The same's the case in really good fiction. Even in crappy fiction, for that matter. In my experience the feeling of immediacy of novels is far greater than of any other medium, even really good role playing. I'll agree with your basic premise, though. Rape plots in roleplaying are...

True, but during the initial concerns there were no such thing as ultraviolent, hyper-realistic video games. Or omni-present, inescapeable, baroque-beyond-body-part-identification internet porn. Or top 10 songs where every third word is bleeped out. Or a show on prime time with a former mass...