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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 373875" data-attributes="member: 3887">Sorry to hear that... I've always felt that the DM bears a lot of the responsibility here. If you're going to allow players to create wildly different characters --in terms of aligment, race, social standing--- then you'd better be prepared to keep coming up with reasons why these individuals work together.That said, I've also found that players over-rely on the abstract mechanism of alignment when trying to define characters, rather than on the more realistic, individual behaviors/beliefs that in toto make up alingment. While alignment is supposed to give players something to grab hold of, a basis for a personality, it does seem to be a end rather than a means to an end. Thus you get contentious, well-armed walking dogmas, rather than good characters.&nbsp; Hope your group changes real-life alignment, or you find another.OT: RobNJ --you wouldn't happen to be an RU student? I have many fond blurry memories of the Ale 'N Wych from my days, long ago, at Rutgers... And Fat Cats. They still sell Fat Cats out of the back of trucks, don' they?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 373875, member: 3887"] Sorry to hear that... I've always felt that the DM bears a lot of the responsibility here. If you're going to allow players to create wildly different characters --in terms of aligment, race, social standing--- then you'd better be prepared to keep coming up with reasons why these individuals work together. That said, I've also found that players over-rely on the abstract mechanism of alignment when trying to define characters, rather than on the more realistic, individual behaviors/beliefs that in toto make up alingment. While alignment is supposed to give players something to grab hold of, a basis for a personality, it does seem to be a end rather than a means to an end. Thus you get contentious, well-armed walking dogmas, rather than good characters. Hope your group changes real-life alignment, or you find another. OT: RobNJ --you wouldn't happen to be an RU student? I have many fond blurry memories of the Ale 'N Wych from my days, long ago, at Rutgers... And Fat Cats. They still sell Fat Cats out of the back of trucks, don' they? [/QUOTE]

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