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<blockquote data-quote="swrushing" data-source="post: 1772391" data-attributes="member: 14140">Also, this is sort of a cart before horse thing.What WE think about alignment is about as useful in prevention of alignment issues as cream of wheat is at preventing rainstorms.Alingment issues will crop up when you, deliberately or inadvertantly, provide moral conflicts to your players. So the first and mostly the only useful place to start looking for questions and answers is *your upcoming game*&gt;What type of campaign do you want it to be? What moral dillemas do you want them to have to overcome? Figure those out and put them in you &quot;nine alignment&quot; examples.Often, if you are not careful, they will sneak up on you.Common Example: The party has stopped the orc raiders from killing the caravan and even have one or two alive. What happens next? Is it an alignment issue if they now kill the helpless and tied up orcs? Does &quot;killing helpless&quot; = evil act? Whatever the answer is in the alignment issue, whats the normal customs? Also, if they now need to track back to the lair and eliminate the orcs to prevent them sending more, is torturing the orcs for info an alignment conflict?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="swrushing, post: 1772391, member: 14140"] Also, this is sort of a cart before horse thing. What WE think about alignment is about as useful in prevention of alignment issues as cream of wheat is at preventing rainstorms. Alingment issues will crop up when you, deliberately or inadvertantly, provide moral conflicts to your players. So the first and mostly the only useful place to start looking for questions and answers is *your upcoming game*> What type of campaign do you want it to be? What moral dillemas do you want them to have to overcome? Figure those out and put them in you "nine alignment" examples. Often, if you are not careful, they will sneak up on you. Common Example: The party has stopped the orc raiders from killing the caravan and even have one or two alive. What happens next? Is it an alignment issue if they now kill the helpless and tied up orcs? Does "killing helpless" = evil act? Whatever the answer is in the alignment issue, whats the normal customs? Also, if they now need to track back to the lair and eliminate the orcs to prevent them sending more, is torturing the orcs for info an alignment conflict? [/QUOTE]

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