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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8444885" data-attributes="member: 42856">I guess maturity comes from how you handle the situation. Yours is a possibility, but the real-life Crusades are also an example of it, with both sides claiming to be god-supported fighters for the greater good, and I think it was more mature than that... (or at least, the people involved thought it was more serious than a kindergarden conflict like you depict). It's not impossible to have crusade-like events in a D&amp;D setting, even with moral absolutes being part of the universe, if those absolutes come from the gods and not the gods emerging from the absolute (so they'd embody it and the situation would never arise as all good gods would point in the same direction and avoid intra-good-supporter wars in the first place).To me, evoking &quot;traditions&quot; is a clear mention of cultural alignment, but each to his own. With regard to moral absolute existing, they can exist and yet be culturally diverse. You can be cosmically LN if you follow the tenets of your neutral god, whether he asks you to not kill people withouht cause or eat your eggs by the small end, and have your soul ending up in the same afterlife plane...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8444885, member: 42856"] I guess maturity comes from how you handle the situation. Yours is a possibility, but the real-life Crusades are also an example of it, with both sides claiming to be god-supported fighters for the greater good, and I think it was more mature than that... (or at least, the people involved thought it was more serious than a kindergarden conflict like you depict). It's not impossible to have crusade-like events in a D&D setting, even with moral absolutes being part of the universe, if those absolutes come from the gods and not the gods emerging from the absolute (so they'd embody it and the situation would never arise as all good gods would point in the same direction and avoid intra-good-supporter wars in the first place). To me, evoking "traditions" is a clear mention of cultural alignment, but each to his own. With regard to moral absolute existing, they can exist and yet be culturally diverse. You can be cosmically LN if you follow the tenets of your neutral god, whether he asks you to not kill people withouht cause or eat your eggs by the small end, and have your soul ending up in the same afterlife plane... [/QUOTE]

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