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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 6098542" data-attributes="member: 98255">At no point did I advocate changing alignment as a frivolous thing. At no point did I state that alignment MUST change to reflect character growth. However, I do feel that sometimes, it is appropriate to do so. In my character's arcs that I described, they were definitely at what you would call "pivotal" moments, and happened either gradually, or sparingly, or both.I don't hate alignment as a concept, or even the 2-axis system per se, but I *do* hate most of the mechanics that tie into it. I despise alignment spells especially. And I'm not advocating that 4e's alignment system is universally better, necessarily, since I think of alignments themselves as handy labels, and the addition of Unaligned to the mix is, IMO, quite desirable. I think of them, as AD&D put it, "a tool, not a striaghtjacket" but strongly feel that the context of that advice was dubious at best considering that the rules of the game did, in fact, use them as a straightjacket.I've seen other game systems whose alignment systems were just as decent; I rather liked Palladium's system, for example, even if it was a bit more limited to typical tropes.I don't know to what extent you are projecting your views of alignment misconceptions onto me, my views of it, or my examples, so I'm not going to speak to those things, other than to say if what you mean is that I'm Doing It Wrong, then I'm going to politely disagree and that's that, because no good will come from arguing about it.In terms of the literary examples, I suppose that is possibly true, though I don't really care about that in the context of alignment, since I'm not necessarily focused on imitating literary tropes with my characters. Nearly all of them have grown in the capacity you describe, and they often do stick to their alignment, but some don't. When they don't, I generally have a pretty good reason for it in the context of the fiction. Sometimes I've made changes because my initial declaration of alignment wasn't actually what I had in mind, wasn't as fun as a different approach to the character, etc, so I make a change. Mostly it's a quick erase and scribble on the character sheet and it's done.As to the experience award, I don't necessarily think there should be an expectation of an award *just* for changing alignment, but I *do* think there should be one for roleplaying a good character, and if that means a shift in alignment, especially a dramatically appropriate one, then so be it.</blockquote>

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