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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8406143" data-attributes="member: 5142">Naturally I can only speak for my experience, though in that experience I think Good vs. Evil tends to greatly overshadow other alignment conflicts and render them fairly pointless. That's why I actually think that adding Good and Evil to D&amp;D decreased nuance and the variability of interesting alignment dynamics rather than increase it. It's not as if thought had not occurred to Michael Moorcock to use Good vs. Evil, but he didn't. He posited that there was a more interesting and less morally clear cut conflict that existed in Law vs. Chaos. Does adding Good and Evil add anything to that? I'm skeptical that it does. Imagine, if you will, that we were not speaking of Good and Evil, but only of Law and Chaos. Is Chaos evil? Sure, there may be demons on the side of Chaos, but so are Elves and Fey. And without Good vs. Evil to be convenient labels that are projected onto them, the lines between demon and fey blur.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8406143, member: 5142"] Naturally I can only speak for my experience, though in that experience I think Good vs. Evil tends to greatly overshadow other alignment conflicts and render them fairly pointless. That's why I actually think that adding Good and Evil to D&D decreased nuance and the variability of interesting alignment dynamics rather than increase it. It's not as if thought had not occurred to Michael Moorcock to use Good vs. Evil, but he didn't. He posited that there was a more interesting and less morally clear cut conflict that existed in Law vs. Chaos. Does adding Good and Evil add anything to that? I'm skeptical that it does. Imagine, if you will, that we were not speaking of Good and Evil, but only of Law and Chaos. Is Chaos evil? Sure, there may be demons on the side of Chaos, but so are Elves and Fey. And without Good vs. Evil to be convenient labels that are projected onto them, the lines between demon and fey blur. [/QUOTE]

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