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<blockquote data-quote="Bloosquig" data-source="post: 2053673" data-attributes="member: 18118">I don't think that that is &quot;too ruthless&quot; for lawful good, you basically said, &quot;there is a dragon attacking this ship, if these innocents are in danger get them to safety and kill anyone in the way.&quot;&nbsp; If you had murdered everyone in their sleep to free the prisoners, well that would be a tad too ruthless probably.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" />&nbsp; &nbsp; Honestly I don't really like alignment much because you could say you were being contrary to your alignment when you saw that someone was being held hostage and didn't try to rescue them as soon as possible.&nbsp; I think people get too hung up on the whole alignment thing and though I realize how hard it is to make a simple and effective one I wish it just worked better.&nbsp; Because the way things are now, you could have a &quot;lawful good&quot; inquisitor torturing people to cleanse them of their sins.&nbsp; Its not an evil act because your doing it for the persons own good right?&nbsp; Morality is way too complex to be compressed into the handful of broad and hard to define catagories that are in D&amp;D right now IMO.&nbsp; &nbsp; But enough ranting (sorry!) no thats not very ruthless IMO.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh&nbsp; &nbsp; :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bloosquig, post: 2053673, member: 18118"] I don't think that that is "too ruthless" for lawful good, you basically said, "there is a dragon attacking this ship, if these innocents are in danger get them to safety and kill anyone in the way." If you had murdered everyone in their sleep to free the prisoners, well that would be a tad too ruthless probably. :] Honestly I don't really like alignment much because you could say you were being contrary to your alignment when you saw that someone was being held hostage and didn't try to rescue them as soon as possible. I think people get too hung up on the whole alignment thing and though I realize how hard it is to make a simple and effective one I wish it just worked better. Because the way things are now, you could have a "lawful good" inquisitor torturing people to cleanse them of their sins. Its not an evil act because your doing it for the persons own good right? Morality is way too complex to be compressed into the handful of broad and hard to define catagories that are in D&D right now IMO. But enough ranting (sorry!) no thats not very ruthless IMO. :heh: [/QUOTE]

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