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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EarthsShadow" data-source="post: 414929" data-attributes="member: 3531">I know of two other games that incorporates alignment into its system, Palladium game books and the Imagine game system.  In palladium, the alignments were split into three categories: Good, Neutral, and Evil...then within these it was split up into seperate distinctions, and with each distinction were major guidelines and points as to the average person with that alignment.  It was better than D&D's alignment system, IMO.  I think the only reason why alignment has stayed is because of all the spells that relie on it being there.  Protection from evil, good, things like that.  Take out the spells, no reason for the alignments, ya know.  Imagine system had an even more detailed alignment system, and had a better explaination of what to do when a character does something different than their listed alignment.  I can't remember to much about it, but I liked it more than D&D.In resolution, if they took out alignment, all the hardcore D&D players out there would get upset because they took it out, and would consider it no longer D&D, right?  If you keep it in there, people will use it grudgingly, but the majority will complain about it.  After all, alignment does cause more arguments among players than any other game mechanic, well it does in my experiences.  To make everyone happy, I think they should keep alignments, then supplement it with a good personality system like the one in Alternity, which had the Motivations, Character Traits and Personality Quirks listed for each person.  If they were combined, there would be no real arguments, or at least not as many arguments compared to how many we have now about it.</blockquote>

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