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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9183470" data-attributes="member: 7025508"><p>Whilst alignment is obviously nonsense and individuals need not be bound by their heritage, I don't agree that species shouldn't have personality and behavioural tendencies. To me it seems extremely dull and unrealistic if every intelligent species are mentally just humans. </p><p></p><p>In any case, assuming one would want to work with existing setting material, I'd first throw away the alignment. Then consider the setting material to be written from the point of view of the species and cultures formerly considered "good." So whilst major facts might be correct, and it is not all just lies, what they say about themselves will be written in extremely flattering light and omit all sort of nasty things, and what they say about their enemies will paint them as monsters. For example perhaps the matriarchal and sexually openminded nature of the drow society is being demonised by conservative an patriarchal human kingdoms. Then work out the "truth" from the position that no group is really evil or good, just a bunch of people who have their values and beliefs and reasons to do what they do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 9183470, member: 7025508"] Whilst alignment is obviously nonsense and individuals need not be bound by their heritage, I don't agree that species shouldn't have personality and behavioural tendencies. To me it seems extremely dull and unrealistic if every intelligent species are mentally just humans. In any case, assuming one would want to work with existing setting material, I'd first throw away the alignment. Then consider the setting material to be written from the point of view of the species and cultures formerly considered "good." So whilst major facts might be correct, and it is not all just lies, what they say about themselves will be written in extremely flattering light and omit all sort of nasty things, and what they say about their enemies will paint them as monsters. For example perhaps the matriarchal and sexually openminded nature of the drow society is being demonised by conservative an patriarchal human kingdoms. Then work out the "truth" from the position that no group is really evil or good, just a bunch of people who have their values and beliefs and reasons to do what they do. [/QUOTE]
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