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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9364882" data-attributes="member: 58172">The original system of Gygax is occasionally awful, such as actual warcrimes and sociopathy being as if "Lawful Good".Plus the original system conflated and confused unrelated concepts about what "Chaos" means ... ethically. Meanwhile there was an immature inability to distinguish ethical Good from "obedience" to the system in power.Plus, the original system is so fifty years ago! Evolution and sanity have happened since then.With regard to an alignment map of eight plus a center, I still find it useful. These are directions of movement: actions, behaviors, habits.There is moving forward toward Good. Backsliding toward Evil. Navigation goes right and left, namely Chaos and Law, around obstacles. It is possible to sharply turn right or left, and travel perpendicular to Good and never move toward any more Good. It is also possible to travel diagonally, toward Chaotic Good or Lawful Good, while gaining ground in both a perpendicular direction while achieving at least some more Good at a slower pace.The center is anywhere someone happens to be now. From this point, the person can move in any direction.</blockquote>