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<blockquote data-quote="Starglim" data-source="post: 1523571" data-attributes="member: 17011">I'm not sure that I understand the poll options.I'd say that I play in, at most, two or three settings at one time, I GM in only one, but I buy books for many different settings. I'm unlikely to buy books for your setting in order to play exclusively in that setting. Rather I will pick up a book in order to use, adapt, or just enjoy the expression of certain ideas.By mere statistics, I'd advise writing rules in a modular way - subsystems that can be detached and used alone, and that all refer back to core d20 rules, except in the specific ways that they are different.On the specific question that you raised, I would say that the behavioural system (whether you use alignment, something different, or no constraint at all) must relate to the central themes of your setting. If the moral realities if your setting aren't noticeably different from the nine alignments of the SRD, then your use of alignment should adhere to the standard assumptions.I don't put too much stock in that other thread. There are some players who hate alignment, just as there are players who hate dice. Frankly, each group is less likely to buy any d20 product at all, regardless of what you put in it. The original poster is plainly wrong to claim that &quot;most people&quot; agree with him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starglim, post: 1523571, member: 17011"] I'm not sure that I understand the poll options. I'd say that I play in, at most, two or three settings at one time, I GM in only one, but I buy books for many different settings. I'm unlikely to buy books for your setting in order to play exclusively in that setting. Rather I will pick up a book in order to use, adapt, or just enjoy the expression of certain ideas. By mere statistics, I'd advise writing rules in a modular way - subsystems that can be detached and used alone, and that all refer back to core d20 rules, except in the specific ways that they are different. On the specific question that you raised, I would say that the behavioural system (whether you use alignment, something different, or no constraint at all) must relate to the central themes of your setting. If the moral realities if your setting aren't noticeably different from the nine alignments of the SRD, then your use of alignment should adhere to the standard assumptions. I don't put too much stock in that other thread. There are some players who hate alignment, just as there are players who hate dice. Frankly, each group is less likely to buy any d20 product at all, regardless of what you put in it. The original poster is plainly wrong to claim that "most people" agree with him. [/QUOTE]

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