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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JackGiantkiller" data-source="post: 1915658" data-attributes="member: 5080">"both the player and Gm arw working off the same guidelines. if a Gm has any odd setting specific things, he shoudl, as with all setting specific oddities, tell them before hand"This is not always the case. I know a number of people, myself included who have had problems in the past, losing paladins to DM whose interpretation of evil was different than our own. It seems to me that Fusangite and I simply believe that such things would be reduced somewhat if the alignment system were more formalized and internally consistent. Part and parcel of this is the notion that political idealogy and personal conduct in pursuit of goals are not inhyerently the same, and that adherence to both sets of guidelines for alignment can be at times mutually exclusive, exacerbating the dilemma.For example...two different friends of mine, both of whom know me very well have described me as, respectively, Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Good...and they cited many similar reasons for their dissimilar choices. That suggests to me that the system may have a bit too much wiggle room to be a valuable descriptor.</blockquote>