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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 4203401" data-attributes="member: 30610">Actually, my line of reasoning is perfectly in keeping with the BoED.The statement you quote is that it bears more similarity to modern morality - not that it in fact bears a close similarity, or worse, is the same (and it is the last case that I strenuously object to.)  While I admit certain superficial similarities, ultimately I take what is and is not exalted behavior from the rules themselves, not from ill-defined preconceptions of morality inherent in the mind of the DM or players.  The latter path is tantamount to forcing rules obligations on players for things that are not in the rules.Perhaps an analogy will help: between the astral plane and the prime material plane, I would say that the material plane "bears more similarity" to reality - and yet due to fundamental differences like matter being composed of the four classical elements rather than chemical elements, even the material plane of DnD fails utterly at being truly like reality.  Mistaking one for the other is something that could happen at a cursory glance, but no scientist would be fooled if he or she suddenly found himself in the DnD world.  Basic experiments would yield different results.I don't agree, or rather, I don't think you take my meaning.  That which is not good is not acceptable for an exalted character, because they are supposed to be paragons of good.  Are you not saying, when you hold up a certain sort of behavior as unexalted, that it is unacceptable in an exalted character?</blockquote>

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