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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6047742" data-attributes="member: 1465">In the current ruleset, alignment is practically fluff. It's harder to play a campaign where alignment has a heavy role, with the current ruleset, rather than the opposite i.e. an alignment-light campaign.But I think that you are right that at least in class description alignment should be fluff, which means that there should be a mention like &quot;Monks are generally Lawful&quot; in the class description. Definitely NOT a tag like this &quot;you cannot progress in this class unless you're Lawful&quot;. This is plain WRONG, and it's a known fact that a lot of players just hate alignment restrictions, why do they have to pick on these players?And actually I think the whole idea specifically that Monks are Lawful is WRONG. It might be true that being lawful helps with self-discipline, but they are NOT the same thing!Alignment is social, it doesn't make sense outside relationships. Law VS Chaos is either about society or the universe as a whole. This can have an effect on the relationship with yourself (thus self-discipline) but it's just not the same.It's perfectly possible for someone to be totally disciplined when it comes to training yourself, and then harboring very &quot;chaotic&quot; feelings towards society even to point of desiring to take the authorities down. Just think of how many terrorist groups are extremely disciplined in their trainings but their overall purpose is not at all &quot;lawful&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6047742, member: 1465"] In the current ruleset, alignment is practically fluff. It's harder to play a campaign where alignment has a heavy role, with the current ruleset, rather than the opposite i.e. an alignment-light campaign. But I think that you are right that at least in class description alignment should be fluff, which means that there should be a mention like "Monks are generally Lawful" in the class description. Definitely NOT a tag like this "you cannot progress in this class unless you're Lawful". This is plain WRONG, and it's a known fact that a lot of players just hate alignment restrictions, why do they have to pick on these players? And actually I think the whole idea specifically that Monks are Lawful is WRONG. It [I]might[/I] be true that being lawful helps with self-discipline, but they are NOT the same thing! Alignment is [B]social[/B], it doesn't make sense outside relationships. Law VS Chaos is either about society or the universe as a whole. This can have an effect on the relationship with yourself (thus self-discipline) but it's just not the same. It's perfectly possible for someone to be totally disciplined when it comes to training yourself, and then harboring very "chaotic" feelings towards society even to point of desiring to take the authorities down. Just think of how many terrorist groups are extremely disciplined in their trainings but their overall purpose is not at all "lawful". [/QUOTE]

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