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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6272405" data-attributes="member: 5143">There are certain stories you simply cannot tell in the D&amp;D Universe pre-4e.&nbsp; The rules of the game and the fluff that goes with it says no.&nbsp; The 9 alignments and the ability to detect alignments meant certain things in terms of story.&nbsp; It also meant the planes had to work with the alignment system.&nbsp; Which further decreased the number of stories you could tell.Now, I'm not saying that people didn't just ignore these problems and make up new stories anyways.&nbsp; People are creative and can get around restrictions.&nbsp; However, half of the time it seemed like people needed to spend an increasing amount of time explaining WHY and HOW their adventure broke the standard D&amp;D assumptions.For example:&quot;So, the king's new wife is secretly a succubus.&nbsp; She's controlling him.&nbsp; Wait, I can't do that.&nbsp; The king's best friend is a Paladin so he'd be able to detect that the queen was evil.&nbsp; But wait, maybe the succubus has a magic item of some sort that masks her alignment.&quot;I can see that they might have wanted to say &quot;Let's let people make those stories without needing justification for the fact that they cause problems with the rules.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6272405, member: 5143"] There are certain stories you simply cannot tell in the D&D Universe pre-4e. The rules of the game and the fluff that goes with it says no. The 9 alignments and the ability to detect alignments meant certain things in terms of story. It also meant the planes had to work with the alignment system. Which further decreased the number of stories you could tell. Now, I'm not saying that people didn't just ignore these problems and make up new stories anyways. People are creative and can get around restrictions. However, half of the time it seemed like people needed to spend an increasing amount of time explaining WHY and HOW their adventure broke the standard D&D assumptions. For example: "So, the king's new wife is secretly a succubus. She's controlling him. Wait, I can't do that. The king's best friend is a Paladin so he'd be able to detect that the queen was evil. But wait, maybe the succubus has a magic item of some sort that masks her alignment." I can see that they might have wanted to say "Let's let people make those stories without needing justification for the fact that they cause problems with the rules." [/QUOTE]

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