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I started with the original game in 1974. We were always ready to run away :) Characters were easy to make, but we wanted to live and keep the progress we had made. We were invested in our characters, and we were wargamers before D&D. Retreating is a thing for situations where you have little to...

He's still hip deep in Traveller apparently. And I'm envious. I ran D&D and Traveller. Playing... sigh I Still love both games :)

Trade can do bad things to specific industries. So can changes in trade patterns. The point is that it benefits the over all economy in nations. Trade creates wealth. It creates jobs. More than it costs. Politicians have spent years pointing out the "costs" of trade without pointing out the...

I adopted a version of Traveller's trade system for my D&D game. Paul Elliot did a better job in Traveller LBB format, called Mercator, of trade in the ancient world using Traveller rules and produced it (for free) as a PDF back in 2010. It should still be available. Expeditious Retreat Press...

I'm not into Pathfinder 2E (the playtest was all I picked up) and I'm not a big Wayne Reynolds fan, but I like this cover. I liked their take on Tooth Faeries going back to PF 1E and the Clockwork Dragon is well done. And, skeletons are skeletons so that's OK too. Nice.

I went for the giant megadungeon back in the day. It's still in use :) I did come up with basic reasons for its' existence and I spread it into numerous smaller parts. It's a huge underground fortification (the above ground part is mostly gone) dating from a series of ancient wars. Well...

Actually I go back a lot farther than 2E. I remember someone talking 2E but it wasn't me. I've frankensteined mine together from older editions (1E) and my own ideas as well as articles from Dragon Magazine back in the day. I'm really, really old :D I see your point about newer players needing...

I have expressed my problems with the state of the definition of alignment and the neglect of the concept of alignment in the last several editions of D&D rules. Rules which have mostly failed to address this. This, more than anything else, is why (imho) people have problems with alignment and...

I proposed a reason that their could be a divine background to alignment in a post at a point in the thread when the subjective nature of alignment was being expounded on as a reason why alignment was flawed. I also proposed (in later posts) differences between lawful gods over it and used some...

I agree. I just don't think we know the numbers on that. The clunkiness sits at the feet of the developers. I can't help that. And I agree it restricts stories. And creates stories :) Everything included in the game system does that. edit I said the "feat" of the developers originally. So...

We all have. See? Alignment is not a straightjacket! Have you completely dumped your ethics and morals? I gather the "wrong" things were a bit more scattered than that. Hopefully :D I'm talking about a population thinking their entire culture / way of life is "wrong". And doing it anyway.

Not really :) I don't run Faerun or the Forgotten Realms that well. I know it's the default setting for D&D 5E. I have the original grey boxed set from back in the day, I've read a lot of articles about it in the old Dragon magazine and various bits in 5E books. I've cribbed a number of ideas...

My opinion of 5Es handling of alignment isn't high :) Do you think in a Lawful Evil nation they see themselves as "wrong"? I'm sure the subjects of a Lawful Good nation (assuming they are LG) see it as "right". I'm just as certain that the LE subjects of a Lawful Evil nation see themselves as...

Are all deities Good? That's why I talked about it.

I think they have neglected it, making it less useful. I don't think it should have been neglected, nor should everything that is neglected simply be eliminated. It depends on how "active" they are. And whether the conflict is over a moral issue or something like church governance (i.e. an...

I know. But, you're only getting an answer if they feel like giving one. I think on minor matters they are going to get quiet. Not on the big stuff, just the little bits. And since when haven't people been willing to argue the little bits, or for that matter commit mass murder over them anyway...

I'm glad we agree :) We agree on this too. They did a half... rear ended job on alignment and behavior in 5E. I mentioned what I think the reasons probably are above. I'm sure there are more, I can think of a couple more just off hand including the "it should be gone" bit. That's pretty much...

Ooh! Sacred cows! Being crushed! Sounds like you have a new herd in mind :D Your certitude is the thing crusades, inquisitions, and witch hunts are made of. Let's just say not everyone agrees with you. Obviously. You have no idea how many people are for or against alignment. Neither do I. You...

That's why I said "what if", I was positing a reason it would work that way. I would posit that If there is an alignment set up that is universal in D&D then divine law reflects it, or vice versa. This wasn't a question about "Good" or "Evil", laws (or Law for that matter) can be both. In my...

Well, what if "lawful" has a religious basis? What if their laws are an attempt to embody divine Laws? In a D&D setting a nation adopting a code of laws (small "L") are probably basing them on a divine set of Lawful (big "L") precepts. There could be variation between the laws of two ostensibly...