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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8292516" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!TL;DR = I think for D&amp;D, the 1e Alignments work perfectly fine. For other games, ymmv.In my own fantasy RPG (based on Darkurthe Legends system) I have a &quot;Good versus Evil&quot; dicometric (?) stat; one side is Corruption, one is Purity. Corruptions is a negative number, Purity is a positive number. I also have Alignment. A Character has an Alignment...with 'something'. This can be a god, a guild, a family, an ideal look on life, or virtually anything else...even a goal or long-term task. The Corruption/Purity number indicates both how 'much' the character is devout (the higher the number, the more devout/determined), and the 'how' that the character behaves in regards to trying to live up to or attain his Alignment.E.g., a PC may have &quot;The God, Thor&quot; and have a Cor/Pur score of +7. This is simple enough, and the tenants of what makes up the belief, moral and other 'rules for worship' of Thor are generally pursued in a &quot;Goodly manner&quot; (positive numbers are Purity, remember?). But, you could also have a PC with &quot;The God, Thor&quot; and have a Cor/Pur score of -7. This PC is just as devout in his/her reverence of Thor, but this PC generally pursues this worship in an &quot;Evil manner&quot;. The &quot;Good&quot; Thor priest may help people in the name of Thor, trying to avenge those harmed by others, trying to help with attaining prosperity via opening a mine for ore in order to help build weapons and armour, etc. Likewise, the &quot;Evil&quot; Thor priest may wage war against others in the name of Thor, asserting the values of battle and victory over the consequences to those being conquered, using force and might to wrest the riches from nearby towns/cities/countries, etc.I've found that my Alignment system works great for MY fantasy RPG game system...but would distract from the 'feel' of D&amp;D. The Alignment system of AD&amp;D and B/X is, imnsho, very much a HUGE part of what makes D&amp;D feel like D&amp;D.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8292516, member: 45197"] Hiya! TL;DR = I think for D&D, the 1e Alignments work perfectly fine. For other games, ymmv. In my own fantasy RPG (based on Darkurthe Legends system) I have a "Good versus Evil" dicometric (?) stat; one side is Corruption, one is Purity. Corruptions is a negative number, Purity is a positive number. I also have Alignment. A Character has an Alignment...with 'something'. This can be a god, a guild, a family, an ideal look on life, or virtually anything else...even a goal or long-term task. The Corruption/Purity number indicates both how 'much' the character is devout (the higher the number, the more devout/determined), and the 'how' that the character behaves in regards to trying to live up to or attain his Alignment. E.g., a PC may have "The God, Thor" and have a Cor/Pur score of +7. This is simple enough, and the tenants of what makes up the belief, moral and other 'rules for worship' of Thor are generally pursued in a "Goodly manner" (positive numbers are Purity, remember?). But, you could also have a PC with "The God, Thor" and have a Cor/Pur score of -7. This PC is [I]just[/I] as devout in his/her reverence of Thor, but this PC generally pursues this worship in an "Evil manner". The "Good" Thor priest may help people in the name of Thor, trying to avenge those harmed by others, trying to help with attaining prosperity via opening a mine for ore in order to help build weapons and armour, etc. Likewise, the "Evil" Thor priest may wage war against others in the name of Thor, asserting the values of battle and victory over the consequences to those being conquered, using force and might to wrest the riches from nearby towns/cities/countries, etc. I've found that my Alignment system works great for MY fantasy RPG game system...but would distract from the 'feel' of D&D. The Alignment system of AD&D and B/X is, imnsho, very much a HUGE part of what makes D&D feel like D&D. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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