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<blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4230967" data-attributes="member: 19083">I LOVE the old system and will stick to it!Most people are only &quot;mildly aligned&quot;, it's just useful flavour for TYPICAL actions, and they make perfect sense to me.In a fantasy world, alginment is not a joke, as it is here, in many such places, you could be executed for being &quot;evil&quot;, there could be wars between law and chaos, etc.There are no devils or einhirar etc on our world, so, when imaging other places, their philosophies are vital, look at it here, environmentalism; Buddhism, the 3 Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism etc...look how serious they are to people.If you added in literal, physical gods or their servants...woooha!!!That's one thing Planescape really got and worked on <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And also, alignment is just perfect for DMs to have a simple guide to a creature's likely actions, merley using two letters:CG elf, ok, not gonna be bothered by laws and rulers, but will respect folk's lives etc.LE hobgoblin, probbaly gonna be very honourable, but also vicious and eliminates enemies.However, that's just general traits, not straight jackets.4th ed seems great to me, Great Wheel..ok I can see where they are coming form with removing it, but they shouldn't have abandoned the alignment system, just reinforced it as a general attitude of creatures, not hard rules, except in extreme cases, like paladins, devils etc who either strive to portray those ideals, or are innately tied to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silverblade The Ench, post: 4230967, member: 19083"] I LOVE the old system and will stick to it! Most people are only "mildly aligned", it's just useful flavour for TYPICAL actions, and they make perfect sense to me. In a fantasy world, alginment is not a joke, as it is here, in many such places, you could be executed for being "evil", there could be wars between law and chaos, etc. There are no devils or einhirar etc on our world, so, when imaging other places, their philosophies are vital, look at it here, environmentalism; Buddhism, the 3 Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism etc...look how serious they are to people. If you added in literal, physical gods or their servants...[I]woooha[/I]!!! That's one thing Planescape really got and worked on :) And also, alignment is just perfect for DMs to have a simple guide to a creature's likely actions, merley using two letters: CG elf, ok, not gonna be bothered by laws and rulers, but will respect folk's lives etc. LE hobgoblin, probbaly gonna be very honourable, but also vicious and eliminates enemies. However, that's just general traits, not straight jackets. 4th ed seems great to me, Great Wheel..ok I can see where they are coming form with removing it, but they shouldn't have abandoned the alignment system, just reinforced it as a general attitude of creatures, not hard rules, except in extreme cases, like paladins, devils etc who either strive to portray those ideals, or are innately tied to them. [/QUOTE]

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