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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6605010" data-attributes="member: 6787503">[MENTION=66434]ExploderWizard[/MENTION], thanks for your response. I was hoping I would hear from someone who had actually used these rules. I, like others, skipped over them in the past, and now that I am delving into them I can see why I, or others, might have thought they were too complicated to use, or at least undesirable since just role playing seems like an easier option.Does this mean you only checked reaction for chance meetings? I think it was in the Holmes rules that the reaction roll was presented only in the context of wandering monsters. I guess the assumption was that if the DM had placed a monster intentionally then its motivations and agenda had been worked out ahead of time. Was that the way you played it?I would have thought that this may have been one of the intended uses of the alignment modifiers given if it weren't for EGG's comments on alignment languages in the DMG. He specifically states that public use of an alignment language will always be seen as uncouth, and that members of the speaker's own alignment group will seek to distance themselves, which sounds like a somewhat negative reaction. It seems then, that the use of alignment tongues would not produce the results we see on the reaction tables.I read the modifiers found under the heading "Special Considerations" as covering these types of situations. If the creature encountered is meant to be thought of as a henchman of the character speaking for the purpose of the check, then these modifiers would apply if say the creature witnesses the character killing or torturing one of its companions, or if the character offers to raise one of the creature's companions from the dead. Thus the character's behavior or the content of the speech of the character are considered as triggering the reaction in these cases, as opposed to the character's alignment.I had a feeling that there were many gaming groups that used alignment this way. I've encountered a couple of old Dragon articles which suggested such an approach, while at the same time I've read at least one which suggested that creatures would react to alignment without external markers, so I wanted to find out where various people stood on this. Thanks again.</blockquote>

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