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<blockquote data-quote="MG.0" data-source="post: 6780816" data-attributes="member: 6799436">Anytime someone has a question about alignments I direct them <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/dnd/alignments.htm" target="_blank">here</a>Edit:I especially like to point out his #1 rule for alignment:Rule #1 of Alignment&nbsp;Actions determine alignment - alignment doesn't determine actions.&nbsp; It has to be that way or else alignment cannot work the way it's intended.&nbsp; One of the things people keep trying to do with alignment is use it to determine which of the nine alignments that a specific action&nbsp; is assigned to.&nbsp; &quot;If my character does this is his alignment that?&quot;&nbsp; or, &quot;What alignment is it to do that action?&quot;&nbsp; It's a discussion that constantly reappears.&nbsp; But trying to make such judgments is trying to run alignment backwards.&nbsp; If you take a characters specific action and say, &quot;That's a LN action,&quot; or, &quot;That action will make you CG,&quot; then you ARE effectively assigning specific actions to a specific alignment and almost always ignoring all context of the&nbsp; action.&nbsp; But get this hammered into your thick&nbsp; skulls - alignment isn't supposed to dictate your actions, so specific actions cannot be designated directly with a given&nbsp; alignment.&nbsp; If it did, players would have no say in any morally&nbsp; significant acts that their characters perform.&nbsp; Their characters choices&nbsp; would be removed and certain behavior and actions would be routinely dictated to&nbsp; them - forced upon them.&nbsp; Any time that a decision involved morals or philosophy, alignment would take over and make decisions for you, assumedly until such&nbsp; time as you intentionally decided to break with your characters alignment.&nbsp; In that&nbsp; case, nobody could ever be accused of having their character NOT behave&nbsp; according to alignment - they could only accuse the DM of failing to&nbsp; enforce alignment-dictated behavior.&nbsp; Players could even just have their&nbsp; characters&nbsp; do whatever they please and leave it up to the DM to keep their&nbsp; characters&nbsp; within a chosen alignment by allowing or disallowing any given action.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MG.0, post: 6780816, member: 6799436"] Anytime someone has a question about alignments I direct them [URL="http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/dnd/alignments.htm"]here[/URL] Edit: I especially like to point out his #1 rule for alignment: [B]Rule #1 of Alignment[/B] [U]Actions determine alignment - alignment [I]doesn't[/I] determine actions[/U]. It [I]has[/I] to be that way or else alignment [I]cannot[/I] work the way it's intended. One of the things people keep trying to do with alignment is use it to determine which of the nine alignments that a specific action is assigned to. "If my character does [I]this[/I] is his alignment [I]that[/I]?" or, "What alignment is it to do [I]that[/I] action?" It's a discussion that constantly reappears. But trying to make such judgments is trying to run alignment backwards. If you take a characters specific action and say, "That's a LN action," or, "That action will make you CG," then you ARE effectively assigning specific actions to a specific alignment and almost always ignoring all context of the action. But get this hammered into your thick skulls - alignment isn't supposed to [I]dictate[/I] your actions, so specific actions [I]cannot[/I] be designated directly with a given alignment. If it did, players would have no say in [I]any[/I] morally significant acts that their characters perform. Their characters choices would be removed and certain behavior and actions would be routinely dictated to them - forced upon them. Any time that a decision involved morals or philosophy, alignment would take over and make decisions [I]for[/I] you, assumedly until such time as you intentionally decided to break with your characters alignment. In that case, nobody could ever be accused of having their character NOT behave according to alignment - they could only accuse the DM of failing to enforce alignment-dictated behavior. Players could even just have their characters do whatever they please and leave it up to the DM to keep their characters within a chosen alignment by allowing or disallowing any given action. [/QUOTE]

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