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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8841617" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>It means "good gods should not torture innocent people, especially not for eternity, and gods that do that should not be labeled Good with D&D's alignment system".</p><p></p><p>When people asky why I have such a burning hatred for alignment, this is a big part of the reason why. D&D royally screws up morality do goddamn often that it frequently includes utter BS in their books like "oopsy, the good gods killed a ton of innocent people, took away healing magic and abandoned the world when people were asking for their help, and acted like it was the layman's fault when people stopped worshipping them, and the books still have the audacity to pretend like these gods are good and should be worshipped" and "oopsy, the good gods are complicit in the eternal torment of innocent people, because they're such big egomaniacs that they would prefer someone to worship one of the setting's EVIL gods to them not worshipping any god at all, and the setting still pretends that they're good". And, of course, let's not forget Gary "nits make lice" Gygax and all of his messed up stances on alignment.</p><p></p><p>D&D has misused alignment since the very beginning. The dude that created it couldn't figure out how to use it correctly, so it's no wonder that D&D keeps fumbling over itself with it.</p><p></p><p>And this is a huge reason why I've got major problems with Dragonlance. It screws up alignment in worse and in dumber ways than D&D is usually prone to do, and makes the books accidentally seem like they condone a huge array of terrible acts by having Good characters do these terrible things, do absolutely nothing to try and atone or repent, the setting pretends like those things never happened and it's still an epic fantasy conflict between Good and Evil, and the devout fans of the setting get upset with you when you suggest that maybe, just maybe, the Good guys of the setting should actually have to do good things in order to be given that label, especially if the books want your characters to worship them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8841617, member: 7023887"] It means "good gods should not torture innocent people, especially not for eternity, and gods that do that should not be labeled Good with D&D's alignment system". When people asky why I have such a burning hatred for alignment, this is a big part of the reason why. D&D royally screws up morality do goddamn often that it frequently includes utter BS in their books like "oopsy, the good gods killed a ton of innocent people, took away healing magic and abandoned the world when people were asking for their help, and acted like it was the layman's fault when people stopped worshipping them, and the books still have the audacity to pretend like these gods are good and should be worshipped" and "oopsy, the good gods are complicit in the eternal torment of innocent people, because they're such big egomaniacs that they would prefer someone to worship one of the setting's EVIL gods to them not worshipping any god at all, and the setting still pretends that they're good". And, of course, let's not forget Gary "nits make lice" Gygax and all of his messed up stances on alignment. D&D has misused alignment since the very beginning. The dude that created it couldn't figure out how to use it correctly, so it's no wonder that D&D keeps fumbling over itself with it. And this is a huge reason why I've got major problems with Dragonlance. It screws up alignment in worse and in dumber ways than D&D is usually prone to do, and makes the books accidentally seem like they condone a huge array of terrible acts by having Good characters do these terrible things, do absolutely nothing to try and atone or repent, the setting pretends like those things never happened and it's still an epic fantasy conflict between Good and Evil, and the devout fans of the setting get upset with you when you suggest that maybe, just maybe, the Good guys of the setting should actually have to do good things in order to be given that label, especially if the books want your characters to worship them. [/QUOTE]
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