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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7979629" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Go back and re-read the post where I said I saw it happen and participated in those arguments during the 3e era. We weren’t arguing about whether or not alignments should exist, we were arguing over our differing interpretations of alignment.I’ll give a specific example. I once made a multiclass monk/rogue. My DM at the time warned me when I made the character that this combination was likely to result in the loss of my monk abilities because monks have to be Lawful. I argued I didn’t see that as a problem because rogues don’t have any alignment restrictions, so I could be a lawful rogue. She agreed this was the case, but said that the things rogues tend to do are not generally compatible with a Lawful alignment. I tried to point out that it should work fine with lawful neutral, because the description of lawful neutral said that acting according to a personal code was valid, and that if my character’s personal code allowed for roguish behavior, I was not violating the alignment according to the way the rules described it.The argument did not end there. We went around in circles for what felt like hours at a time, on and off, over the phone, between classes, basically any time the subject of D&amp;D came up, until that character died.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7979629, member: 6779196"] Go back and re-read the post where I said I saw it happen and participated in those arguments during the 3e era. We weren’t arguing about whether or not alignments should exist, we were arguing over our differing interpretations of alignment. I’ll give a specific example. I once made a multiclass monk/rogue. My DM at the time warned me [I]when I made the character[/I] that this combination was likely to result in the loss of my monk abilities because monks have to be Lawful. I argued I didn’t see that as a problem because rogues don’t have any alignment restrictions, so I could be a lawful rogue. She agreed this was the case, but said that the things rogues tend to do are not generally compatible with a Lawful alignment. I tried to point out that it should work fine with lawful neutral, because the description of lawful neutral said that acting according to a personal code was valid, and that if my character’s personal code allowed for roguish behavior, I was not violating the alignment according to the way the rules described it. The argument did not end there. We went around in circles for what felt like hours at a time, on and off, over the phone, between classes, basically any time the subject of D&D came up, until that character died. [/QUOTE]

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