Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Eleven Things Alignment Got Right
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 4950993" data-attributes="member: 82504"><p>The allignments are pre-canned... are you actually arguing that isnt obvious?</p><p></p><p>I considered it obvious they were "precanned" NOT obvious themselves. Communication failure I think</p><p></p><p>And my opinion that they are boring is certainly just an opinion something I see no need to prove or disprove... my son finds the idea of measuring people on a two scale axis as interesting... </p><p></p><p></p><p>uselessly vague answer study other cultures or even the american culture a little and that is so vague as to be unusable.</p><p></p><p>The "law" tends to at least be relatively well defined in the real world at least start defining it for your fantasy world so that answer gets a measure of usefulness..... </p><p></p><p>And the real life salesmans answers can tell you more by the tone of there voice than the answer he gives <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />... </p><p></p><p> </p><p>1) The question itself gets them thinking in terms of the choices they will make. (and sets a tone that ethics and implications might actually enter the game).</p><p>2) relatively general nature of the question allows them to take it various different ways.</p><p>3) it might force me to elaborate on something to allow them to hang there hat on.... in your "He wouldnt disobey the law"...answer It gives me a clue that we need to elaborate on the laws of this fantasyverse.(enumerate them or ask the player to help, this latter is significant as the player may be defining the laws of his characters homeland) we then discuss what he thinks about the laws of the neighboring culture...The players answer to a general question has helped the game far more than categorizing the character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Garthanos, post: 4950993, member: 82504"] The allignments are pre-canned... are you actually arguing that isnt obvious? I considered it obvious they were "precanned" NOT obvious themselves. Communication failure I think And my opinion that they are boring is certainly just an opinion something I see no need to prove or disprove... my son finds the idea of measuring people on a two scale axis as interesting... uselessly vague answer study other cultures or even the american culture a little and that is so vague as to be unusable. The "law" tends to at least be relatively well defined in the real world at least start defining it for your fantasy world so that answer gets a measure of usefulness..... And the real life salesmans answers can tell you more by the tone of there voice than the answer he gives :devil:... 1) The question itself gets them thinking in terms of the choices they will make. (and sets a tone that ethics and implications might actually enter the game). 2) relatively general nature of the question allows them to take it various different ways. 3) it might force me to elaborate on something to allow them to hang there hat on.... in your "He wouldnt disobey the law"...answer It gives me a clue that we need to elaborate on the laws of this fantasyverse.(enumerate them or ask the player to help, this latter is significant as the player may be defining the laws of his characters homeland) we then discuss what he thinks about the laws of the neighboring culture...The players answer to a general question has helped the game far more than categorizing the character. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Eleven Things Alignment Got Right
Top
