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I'm down for a 3-dimensional good-evil/chaos-order/neutrality-involvement scale. It would solve everything.
Everything?I'm down for a 3-dimensional good-evil/chaos-order/neutrality-involvement scale. It would solve everything.
Everything?
Ok, I get the idea of keeping law and chaos in balance, but what kind of nitwit thinks that the good of the universe requires keeping enough evil around? What? Are we concerned that everyone else will get soft if they aren't struggling against evil? Or are we concerned that, without evil, ostensibly "good" adventurers will have to face the fact that breaking into people's homes, killing them and making off with their worldly possessions isn't actually, uh, good?
That's kind of what it is already, though. There are no mechanics based on alignment; it's just there as a flavor thing (which you can, of course, ignore).I really hope there will be other options alignment including no alignment at all in core.
If you wipe out all evil, then who's next? Intelligent races have the propensity to fight over ideology, so the next fight would be Law vs. Chaos. Better to make sure not all the evil is wiped out so the zealous do-gooders won't turn to you next. But I still don't think that Neutral alignments are needed to maintain "the balance." A good-aligned person is more than capable of having reasons to want to keep a balance.
I'd rather they get rid of the Neutral component altogether and keep Unaligned as an option for more than just instinctual creatures. That would make five distinct alignments. The alignments aren't meant to be straightjackets anyway, so there's no need for a neutral space where someone acts good sometimes and evil other times.
A good society that wipes out evil -- that's fine. But when they turn to "who's next" then they are no longer good. "Not killing the neighbors for no reason" is a basic tenant of the good alignments.
I don't know about that. I find the differences between Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral and Lawful Evil societies to be quite interesting and the spectrum would lose many of its interesting characteristics without a midpoint at Lawful Neutral. If we're going to have more than Good-Neutral-Evil, then I think you want the full set of 9+1 (with both Unaligned and True Neutral).