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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1171493" data-attributes="member: 172">Are you saying &quot;and still keep alignment as a universal rule?&quot;Taking a look at reality, most societies don't consider their choices wrong or inappropriate. What a strictly lawful society would call &quot;good&quot; might not match the definition of &quot;good&quot; in the game. To clerics in such a society, they may understand their &quot;detect chaos&quot; spell as a &quot;detect evil&quot; from their viewpoint.That said, the situation you describe sounds like significant factors of cosmology and religion are such that it is really not well served by the alignment system. In such a case, you could do something like discard the alignment spells or create subjective alignments that correspond to the deities' principles, and simply replace detect/smite/whatever [alignment] with d/s/w [heathen].AFAIAC, the primary purpose of alignment is to ajudicate supernatural effects in the game that have to do with tangible morality. If such tangible morality is not part of your setting, then there is probably not much reason for you to persist in using it.I would recommend anyone interested to consider arcana unearthed as a resource; it's spell set does not consider any sort of &quot;alignment.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 1171493, member: 172"] Are you saying "and still keep alignment as a universal rule?" Taking a look at reality, most societies don't consider their choices wrong or inappropriate. What a strictly lawful society would call "good" might not match the definition of "good" in the game. To clerics in such a society, they may understand their "detect chaos" spell as a "detect evil" from their viewpoint. That said, the situation you describe sounds like significant factors of cosmology and religion are such that it is really not well served by the alignment system. In such a case, you could do something like discard the alignment spells or create subjective alignments that correspond to the deities' principles, and simply replace detect/smite/whatever [alignment] with d/s/w [heathen]. AFAIAC, the primary purpose of alignment is to ajudicate supernatural effects in the game that have to do with tangible morality. If such tangible morality is not part of your setting, then there is probably not much reason for you to persist in using it. I would recommend anyone interested to consider arcana unearthed as a resource; it's spell set does not consider any sort of "alignment." [/QUOTE]

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