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<blockquote data-quote="Avatar" data-source="post: 250802" data-attributes="member: 5601">Wow 3 pages, and still going.&nbsp; This is a better response than I'd hoped.But reading some of the responses, I think things are a little off track from my original question IMHO.I will agree that each God/dess judges alignment slightly differently.&nbsp; My point is, God/desses tend to be a vain bunch.&nbsp; No God truly thinks of himself as evil, just as Stalin and Hitler, despite killing millions, never thought of each other as evil.&nbsp; So what happens if Wee Jas or some other &quot;evil&quot; god (evil within the non-relative DnD Pantheon) tells his minions, &quot;You are good!&nbsp; everything that Pelor and his people do is evil!&nbsp; Go and smite this evil!?Alright, in DnD, it doesn't matter what Wee Jas tells his crew, their evil.My question is, in an unknown pantheon (one of my creation) can I mask from my players who is working for the God of goodness and light and who is working for the God of death and destruction?&nbsp; If the answer is that alignments are non-relative, then the answer is no.&nbsp; Everyone working for the Dark God gets LE, NE or CE, or at best Neutral, alignments and vice versa.Basically the idea is to hide from my players who they work for, if and when this game ever happens.Any thoughts on that?Thanks again to all who have replied,Alan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Avatar, post: 250802, member: 5601"] Wow 3 pages, and still going. This is a better response than I'd hoped. But reading some of the responses, I think things are a little off track from my original question IMHO. I will agree that each God/dess judges alignment slightly differently. My point is, God/desses tend to be a vain bunch. No God truly thinks of himself as evil, just as Stalin and Hitler, despite killing millions, never thought of each other as evil. So what happens if Wee Jas or some other "evil" god (evil within the non-relative DnD Pantheon) tells his minions, "You are good! everything that Pelor and his people do is evil! Go and smite this evil!? Alright, in DnD, it doesn't matter what Wee Jas tells his crew, their evil. My question is, in an unknown pantheon (one of my creation) can I mask from my players who is working for the God of goodness and light and who is working for the God of death and destruction? If the answer is that alignments are non-relative, then the answer is no. Everyone working for the Dark God gets LE, NE or CE, or at best Neutral, alignments and vice versa. Basically the idea is to hide from my players who they work for, if and when this game ever happens. Any thoughts on that? Thanks again to all who have replied, Alan [/QUOTE]

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