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<blockquote data-quote="dead" data-source="post: 1514464" data-attributes="member: 18707">I bet 10 people would give 10 different answers on what alignment PC X would be. Then they'd have a violent argument.The point is, alignment DOESN'T MATTER! If a PC is playing their personality then that's good enough. You don't have to go that extra step by tacking an alignment on him.The only reason you'd have to know his alignment is for game-system reasons; ie. if you have spells like detect evil; unholy blight etc.But as I said, I've changed all these to detect/affect the &quot;enemy&quot;.I don't care if people think alignment is rigid or amorphous, the point is people disagree ALL the time on what alignment such-and-such should be, or whether a particular action is defined within the game as &quot;evil&quot;. If there is so much discrepancy between what people think, then alignment has problems.I might post a character sketch (personality, quirks, etc.) and ask everyone to vote &quot;what alignment do you think this guy is? -- LG, NG, CG, LN, N, CN, LE, NE, CE?&quot; I bet there will be disagrements! If everybody chooses the same alignment then I stand corrected.P.S. &quot;I don't understand alignments therefore I don't use them&quot; thread?Forgiveness. dead was not aware of this thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dead, post: 1514464, member: 18707"] I bet 10 people would give 10 different answers on what alignment PC X would be. Then they'd have a violent argument. The point is, alignment DOESN'T MATTER! If a PC is playing their personality then that's good enough. You don't have to go that extra step by tacking an alignment on him. The only reason you'd have to know his alignment is for game-system reasons; ie. if you have spells like detect evil; unholy blight etc. But as I said, I've changed all these to detect/affect the "enemy". I don't care if people think alignment is rigid or amorphous, the point is people disagree ALL the time on what alignment such-and-such should be, or whether a particular action is defined within the game as "evil". If there is so much discrepancy between what people think, then alignment has problems. I might post a character sketch (personality, quirks, etc.) and ask everyone to vote "what alignment do you think this guy is? -- LG, NG, CG, LN, N, CN, LE, NE, CE?" I bet there will be disagrements! If everybody chooses the same alignment then I stand corrected. P.S. "I don't understand alignments therefore I don't use them" thread? Forgiveness. dead was not aware of this thread. [/QUOTE]

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