Beyond good and evil

[Desdichado]

For those asking, my pdf -- which is nearing completion (I just took a break from typing it up to come here for a few minutes) will be linked in my sig file. Just click on the big genie. I'll post an announcement of some kind when it's done too.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

LOL! Good ol' tendencies! The easy way to say your character is Evil but not REALLY EVIL!

"I'm basically a good guy! I just do nasty things every now and then."

Well, I think tendencies define more of a range in the alignments, and I only do it with alignments that are one step away. I.E. A CG NPC can not have LE tendencies.

FD

 

[RobNJ]

So if alignment's so hot, why have WotC not put it in any of the other games they put out?

 

[Desdichado]

Alignment's not hot, it's a sacred cow. There's no need for it except perhaps in Planescape.

But it's there, for many settings it doesn't have any adverse effect, and a lot of old time gamers like it for tradition, newer gamers probably like it for the shortcut it gives on designing a character concept, so it stays.

I'd use it in some official D&D settings and not have a problem with it. Normally, though, I either marginalize it to the point of non-use or methodically design it out, as I'm doing now.