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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 7177027" data-attributes="member: 31506">It IS utterly false that you need alignment to tell a grail story or Jekyll/Hyde. They were written without alignment. So alignment isnt even required to tell the stories Cosmic Kid claimed they were. It all boils down to &quot;DM has to make a judgment call if you can get the grail&quot;. Alignment is a pointless middleman in this case. Unlike AC, HP, and other rules, it's purely subjective. It's why you get a bunch of different answers to the question of &quot;what is Batman's alignment&quot;. It serves no purpose, particularly compared to the bond/trait/etc system, Fate's aspects, Unkown Armies hardened/failed matrixes, all of which are far better descriptors of a character than LG/CN/whatever.Alignment is only shorthand for a personality, and BAD shorthand at that.&nbsp; If other games can have heroes/villains without 2 letters written on the character sheet, what does that say about the necessity of alignment?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jefe Bergenstein, post: 7177027, member: 31506"] It IS utterly false that you need alignment to tell a grail story or Jekyll/Hyde. [U][B]They were written without alignment.[/B][/U] So alignment isnt even required to tell the stories Cosmic Kid claimed they were. It all boils down to "DM has to make a judgment call if you can get the grail". Alignment is a pointless middleman in this case. Unlike AC, HP, and other rules, it's purely subjective. It's why you get a bunch of different answers to the question of "what is Batman's alignment". It serves no purpose, particularly compared to the bond/trait/etc system, Fate's aspects, Unkown Armies hardened/failed matrixes, all of which are far better descriptors of a character than LG/CN/whatever. Alignment is only shorthand for a personality, and BAD shorthand at that. If other games can have heroes/villains without 2 letters written on the character sheet, what does that say about the necessity of alignment? [/QUOTE]

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