Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Elderbrain" data-source="post: 6780729"><p>Iserith, the whole point of choosing an alignment is that you are essentially stating how you are going to roleplay your character! Just as a player who selects the Wizard class is announcing that he intends to play an guy who casts arcane magic spells rather than, say, go about smashing foes with Barbarian rage (unless he multiclasses...), a player who announces that his character is Lawful Good is saying that he is going to play that character a certain way. Selecting the Lawful Good alignment (for instance) excludes the player from declaring that his PC is going to (say) rob the peasants walking down the road, at least if the player is playing his PC according to the alignment he freely selected. If not, he's not roleplaying properly, and should have selected an alignment that allows him to have his character do what he wants. What's the point of having alignments at all, if the allegedly Lawful Good PC can do anything his Chaotic Evil counterpart can do without penalty? If a PC wants to play his character in (say) a Chaotic Evil manner, fine... but he should not be allowed to do so and also claim his character is Lawful Good! You wouldn't allow a character to be defined as a &quot;pirate&quot; and then let the player tell you &quot;Oh, and by the way, he's never been on a boat, knows nothing about seamanship, and is deathly afraid of water&quot;, would you? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm&nbsp; &nbsp; :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Elderbrain, post: 6780729"] Iserith, the whole point of choosing an alignment is that you are essentially stating how you are going to roleplay your character! Just as a player who selects the Wizard class is announcing that he intends to play an guy who casts arcane magic spells rather than, say, go about smashing foes with Barbarian rage (unless he multiclasses...), a player who announces that his character is Lawful Good is saying that he is going to play that character a certain way. Selecting the Lawful Good alignment (for instance) excludes the player from declaring that his PC is going to (say) rob the peasants walking down the road, at least if the player is playing his PC according to the alignment he freely selected. If not, he's not roleplaying properly, and should have selected an alignment that allows him to have his character do what he wants. What's the point of having alignments at all, if the allegedly Lawful Good PC can do anything his Chaotic Evil counterpart can do without penalty? If a PC wants to play his character in (say) a Chaotic Evil manner, fine... but he should not be allowed to do so and also claim his character is Lawful Good! You wouldn't allow a character to be defined as a "pirate" and then let the player tell you "Oh, and by the way, he's never been on a boat, knows nothing about seamanship, and is deathly afraid of water", would you? :hmm: [/QUOTE]

Verification