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<blockquote data-quote="FiddleSticks96" data-source="post: 5506413" data-attributes="member: 6673096">To end any further questioning of whether or not my players are aware&nbsp; that I do not follow the rules (which are stated to be guidelines to be&nbsp; followed but can be altered) to the letter 100% of the time. I don't go&nbsp; around making stuff up or outright ignoring rules for no reason, and I&nbsp; do my best to make the altered or new rule as coherent and believable as&nbsp; possible. I take each campaign on a case by case basis. A constant that&nbsp; exists in all our campaigns is that non of us are exceedingly rigid&nbsp; when it comes to the alignment system, which, in my opinion, is&nbsp; fundamentally flawed. With that said, my players are aware that in my&nbsp; book &quot;Always&quot; means &quot;Mostly (more than 50%), or sometimes even Usually&nbsp; (50%), but that is rare&quot;. This is the way we have always done it, no&nbsp; matter which of us is the DM.Now then, that PLAYERS are aware of this, the characters on the other&nbsp; hand are likely under the impression that undead are evil, period. Now&nbsp; they are standing in front of an undead who claims and appears to be&nbsp; good. I encourage role-play and discourage player knowledge. To put it&nbsp; simply, I try to prevent players from acting on knowledge that the&nbsp; character doesn't know. It defeats the purpose of the roleplaying.This thread wasn't so much meant to be a discussion of the rules as it&nbsp; was a way for me to get ideas be seeing how various people would react&nbsp; if they were in the same situation. Please avoid being offended by&nbsp; something that is different.For the record, I've been a vampire buff BEFORE it was common place. Remember the good 'ol days when you would say &quot;Vampire&quot; and everyone would respond by saying &quot;Eww a goth!&quot;. Those were the days!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FiddleSticks96, post: 5506413, member: 6673096"] To end any further questioning of whether or not my players are aware that I do not follow the rules (which are stated to be guidelines to be followed but can be altered) to the letter 100% of the time. I don't go around making stuff up or outright ignoring rules for no reason, and I do my best to make the altered or new rule as coherent and believable as possible. I take each campaign on a case by case basis. A constant that exists in all our campaigns is that non of us are exceedingly rigid when it comes to the alignment system, which, in my opinion, is fundamentally flawed. With that said, my players are aware that in my book "Always" means "Mostly (more than 50%), or sometimes even Usually (50%), but that is rare". This is the way we have always done it, no matter which of us is the DM. Now then, that PLAYERS are aware of this, the characters on the other hand are likely under the impression that undead are evil, period. Now they are standing in front of an undead who claims and appears to be good. I encourage role-play and discourage player knowledge. To put it simply, I try to prevent players from acting on knowledge that the character doesn't know. It defeats the purpose of the roleplaying. This thread wasn't so much meant to be a discussion of the rules as it was a way for me to get ideas be seeing how various people would react if they were in the same situation. Please avoid being offended by something that is different. For the record, I've been a vampire buff BEFORE it was common place. Remember the good 'ol days when you would say "Vampire" and everyone would respond by saying "Eww a goth!". Those were the days! [/QUOTE]

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