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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8563880" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Then why label those mortals in the first place? What is gained by doing this?Because they're political affiliations and are relatively well defined. They're not really comparable to alignment at all. Alignments are not political factions, they're some bizarre mix of personality type and morality. Why?Why? I mean you can have your gods bizarrely fixed into nine stock personality types if you want, but that seems exceedingly limiting and hardly a sensible basis for the game in general. Why cannot the god of war be both impulsive and honourable? I mean if you want house rule things, &quot;This spell cannot be used against the divine agents of the deity who granted it&quot; does the same, without the weirdness of agents of two opposing gods who happen to share an alignment being immune to each other's powers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8563880, member: 7025508"] Then why label those mortals in the first place? What is gained by doing this? Because they're political affiliations and are relatively well defined. They're not really comparable to alignment at all. Alignments are not political factions, they're some bizarre mix of personality type and morality. Why? Why? I mean you can have your gods bizarrely fixed into nine stock personality types if you want, but that seems exceedingly limiting and hardly a sensible basis for the game in general. Why cannot the god of war be both impulsive and honourable? I mean if you want house rule things, "This spell cannot be used against the divine agents of the deity who granted it" does the same, without the weirdness of agents of two opposing gods who happen to share an alignment being immune to each other's powers. [/QUOTE]

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