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<blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 5779665" data-attributes="member: 59411">I think I'll mirror the statement alignments are guidelines, but I don't know if they're unerring locomotive rails or anything. I honestly don't give it too much thought to alignment when I'm DMing, but my ongoing campaign has a lot of murky, moral territory. Morality I think plays a much, much, much larger role than alignment in my campaign, and I don't think the two are quite the same.PCs have done evil things for the greater good, and good things sometimes suspecting the evil that would occur later on because of their understanding, and everything in between. Several enemy factions play on this morality, and as such their alignments range from Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil (even in the structure of a Good goddess's church, or in the same nation-wide organization). They justify their crimes or warmongering, assassinations or tireless compromises, as necessary for the defense of Creation. In my game, a Far Realm entity is slowly moving closer to the solar system my setting comprises, guided by various aberrant agents and unwitting factions abusing alien technology. In the face of total annihilation, just what is good or evil. Is there only survival? And is survival inherently moral and good, or justified evil? I'm not sure there is a definitive answer, but the party is living through the conundrum. As for me playing, I don't know... all my characters seen to start off Unaligned and end up manipulative, self-interested, backstabbing Neutral Evil, and in one case Chaotic Evil. I managed to finish out one of the games, but the other I had to switch characters (he was a great character, though...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pour, post: 5779665, member: 59411"] I think I'll mirror the statement alignments are guidelines, but I don't know if they're unerring locomotive rails or anything. I honestly don't give it too much thought to alignment when I'm DMing, but my ongoing campaign has a lot of murky, moral territory. Morality I think plays a much, much, much larger role than alignment in my campaign, and I don't think the two are quite the same. PCs have done evil things for the greater good, and good things sometimes suspecting the evil that would occur later on because of their understanding, and everything in between. Several enemy factions play on this morality, and as such their alignments range from Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil (even in the structure of a Good goddess's church, or in the same nation-wide organization). They justify their crimes or warmongering, assassinations or tireless compromises, as necessary for the defense of Creation. In my game, a Far Realm entity is slowly moving closer to the solar system my setting comprises, guided by various aberrant agents and unwitting factions abusing alien technology. In the face of total annihilation, just what is good or evil. Is there only survival? And is survival inherently moral and good, or justified evil? I'm not sure there is a definitive answer, but the party is living through the conundrum. As for me playing, I don't know... all my characters seen to start off Unaligned and end up manipulative, self-interested, backstabbing Neutral Evil, and in one case Chaotic Evil. I managed to finish out one of the games, but the other I had to switch characters (he was a great character, though...). [/QUOTE]

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