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This works fine, until the players figure it out. If its done repeatedly, the players will figure it out. If someone was expecting a sandbox this will disappoint them.

This hasn't really been true in my experience. Elves and dwarves certainly guard their borders, but not with a "shoot first and ask questions later" attitude (except toward orcs and the like). A D&D world is a dangerous world after all. Also, some human societies are very welcoming of...

True enough, in The Chronicles of Riddick, he was still evil - but judged only by Pitch Black (a much better movie, IMO) I'd peg him as having changed alignment.

Elves and dwarves are, BTB, of good alignment on the average. Their societies should reflect that. Human societies don't necessarily have an average alignment of good. Some will be good, some evil, others neutral. That leaves room for the corrupt civilization so common in Sword & Sorcery as well...

I would say that Riddick changed alignment in the course of Pitch Black. His reaction to the new captain's self sacrifice and the last line, something like "Tell them that he died there" sort of clinch that for me.

Gary Gygax suggested that Conan's alignment was Chaotic Neutral (but with good tendencies) at the beginning of his career, but had become Chaotic Good (with neutral tendencies) by the end of his career. Sounds about right to me.

No. Yes. If the creature didn't radiate evil, then something more is going on and the PCs need to get to the bottom of it. Depends. Are creatures of this type intrinsically and irredeemably evil? If so, the young should radiate evil too, and destroying the lot is the moral choice. If not...

Once had a player create an atheistic character. He was deemed to be insane by most people.

I don't have a default answer. The answer depends on the question. I think the closest of the choices that you suggested is "maybe". In a thread some months ago an advocate of the "always say 'yes'" philosophy gave an example. If a PC wants something that's not really significant to the...

And whether or not they can carry coconuts. :)

By that standard, there's a lot of American and European animals that have been excluded from the game. Where are the stats on garter snakes, sparrows, hedgehogs, shrews, salmon, robins (both European and American varieties), etc, etc These creatures are excluded from both monster books and...

The AD&D 1E monster books included a host of non-European, non-North-American animals (e.g. lions, tigers, hippopotamuses, elephants (both African and Indian), hyenas, cheetahs, gorillas, ostriches, emus, rhea) . Did these animals not make it into later editions? If they did, the "Eurocentric"...

Doesn't the "awesome blow" feat allow this mechanically?

In 1E, due to the vagaries of initiative, a huge scorpion-thing attacked a paladin before he could heal himself. Normally both pincers would hit at the same moment, however the paladin's player argued that it was unlikely that two 8' long pincers could attack his 6' tall character at once. The...

To speak to the original post, it looks like in the case related by DonTadow that two of the players expect to do extremely stupid things in dangerous situations and still have everything come out OK. A game where that's the case is not a game I'd like to run or play. Of course, we only have one...

How about "the party is wished back by a mysterious archmage who was subtly written into their backstories early on and is using them as pawns in his conflict with another being of great power". Worked for me.

Righteous or self-righteous?

I also dislike the "adventuring party as traveling freak show" thing.

Once. A PC called upon Orcus and he appeared. That PC regretted it. And is likely still regretting it...

I did (and still do) use racial level limits. I played in one campaign in which these limits were modified.