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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7636248" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I can't remember where I picked it up, but I know I didn't get it on my own. There was a variant of the alignment system we used where your choice of alignment was basically you swearing to the "Cosmic Cause" of either Law or Chaos - always with appropriate Capitalization - and if you weren't either then you were neutral. It wasn't about how you acted, it was literally about your "alignment" i.e. "whose side are you on". That was the only axis that mattered for spell effects and whatnot because we were playing with B/X alignments - you only picked an alignment if you were part of that cosmic conflict and so most of the NPCs you met were just neutral. Monsters had alignments - which were almost always Chaotic at low levels - because in the big picture they were the pawns of the Lords of Chaos. People could be aligned with Law and be evil or good, and people could technically be aligned with Chaos and be good (but it never happened - Chaos was always evil and Law was mostly good with few exceptions).</p><p></p><p>It was clearly based on Moorcock's stuff, but none of us would have read Moorcock when we used it. It was only later that I read Moorcock and realized where it had come from, and by that time I'd been fully indoctrinated in how AD&D 1e used alignment and it had infested my B/X games. Was it possibly a variant published in a Dragon magazine or something?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7636248, member: 19857"] I can't remember where I picked it up, but I know I didn't get it on my own. There was a variant of the alignment system we used where your choice of alignment was basically you swearing to the "Cosmic Cause" of either Law or Chaos - always with appropriate Capitalization - and if you weren't either then you were neutral. It wasn't about how you acted, it was literally about your "alignment" i.e. "whose side are you on". That was the only axis that mattered for spell effects and whatnot because we were playing with B/X alignments - you only picked an alignment if you were part of that cosmic conflict and so most of the NPCs you met were just neutral. Monsters had alignments - which were almost always Chaotic at low levels - because in the big picture they were the pawns of the Lords of Chaos. People could be aligned with Law and be evil or good, and people could technically be aligned with Chaos and be good (but it never happened - Chaos was always evil and Law was mostly good with few exceptions). It was clearly based on Moorcock's stuff, but none of us would have read Moorcock when we used it. It was only later that I read Moorcock and realized where it had come from, and by that time I'd been fully indoctrinated in how AD&D 1e used alignment and it had infested my B/X games. Was it possibly a variant published in a Dragon magazine or something? [/QUOTE]
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