Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I once knew a guy who put ketchup on his.Why are you putting jam on ice cream?!? Can't you just get an ice cream that already has jam in it?
I once knew a guy who put ketchup on his.Why are you putting jam on ice cream?!? Can't you just get an ice cream that already has jam in it?
I'll always love the Alignment system for heavily influencing D&D's take on devils to the point that a Forgotten Realms novel apparently has a granddaughter of Glasya (and therefore great-granddaughter of Asmodeus himself) worried about the imp underling of hers that has filed a formal complaint against her that'll look bad on her record.Right. Which again shows how the alignment system is utterly useless, as people never agree what things mean.
I’m not inherently opposed to the idea of a game mechanic that categorizes characters by their moral character. The 9-alignment system just does a poor job at it.Its almost like it is a fun game mechanic that lets you know what to kill and which magic items you can use without getting a headache, rather than trying to simulate actual psychological nuances.
The first is your own opinion, the latter is someone else's. But bot are just opinions.Thinking that you're good and being definitionally good are very very different things
I think it's pretty useful, myself. After all, I don't need everyone to agree with the definition of "evil," just the folks at my table. No issues so far.Right. Which again shows how the alignment system is utterly useless, as people never agree what things mean.
I’m not really a comic book girl, so I can’t speak much to the relative nuance of various comic book villains. From an outside perspective, they all pretty much look cartoonishly evil, with varying levels of explanatory backstory and/or internal conflict. Are explanatory backstory and internal conflict nuance? Yeah, I guess, they’re just minor as nuance goes.
It’s also maybe not the best analogy because these are individual characters, whereas goblins are a group. It might be more apropos to ask if, like, the Ten Rings is more nuanced than Hydra.
I think that this is the point of the thread?I get that sometimes you might just want think deeply and just do commit some fictional violence. But I really don't get why you would then care about the moral aspect at all? Why you need to justify it? Why can't your character just kill the goblins, why it matters who's good or bad in this scenario? We aren't thinking deeply about morals after all.
yes Lex Luther or Riddler or even Dr Psycho can all work with the heroes to stop the antimonitor... Joker or Doomsday not so muchTo me it feels like LE has a lot more room for nuance than CE. Kingpin feels like he has a lot more interesting than the chitauri, or Dr Doom vs. Carnage.
I get that sometimes you might just want think deeply and just do commit some fictional violence. But I really don't get why you would then care about the moral aspect at all? Why you need to justify it? Why can't your character just kill the goblins, why it matters who's good or bad in this scenario? We aren't thinking deeply about morals after all.
Sure. So do that. You don't need to try to justify it with some laughable moral system.I think that this is the point of the thread?
Sometimes, you just want to get in there and start swinging for the fences to see how far you can launch your next target through the window.
Because people want to feel like they're the hero of their story. Only cartoon bad guys, edgelords and false martyrs think they're the bad guy. So everything they do must be framed as something righteous.I get that sometimes you might just want think deeply and just do commit some fictional violence. But I really don't get why you would then care about the moral aspect at all? Why you need to justify it? Why can't your character just kill the goblins, why it matters who's good or bad in this scenario? We aren't thinking deeply about morals after all.
Oh, I wasnt trying to engage with the Alignment thread jacking.Sure. So do that. You don't need to try to justify it with some laughable moral system.
Our apparently:In what universe is jam not a perfectly legitimate ice cream topping?
Never trust the British on matters of flavor.Our apparently:
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I get that alignment kicked your puppy across the room at some point, but you do not have to be a jerk about it.Sure. So do that. You don't need to try to justify it with some laughable moral system.
We really still need that green puke emoji on the EN World like option bar...Our apparently:
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Don't Worry, We Tried Ketchup And Mayo Ice Cream So You Don't Have To
Come on. whatever happened to good old-fashioned vanilla and chocolate?www.huffingtonpost.co.uk