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June 27 Q&A: Modular Features, Paladin Alignment and Legendary Creatures
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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6156140" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>For me, at least (in legacy view) it's the green star at the left bottom of the post.</p><p></p><p>The rest of your post all makes sense. I agree that 4e alignment presupposes a certain sort of campaign. In Dark Sun, for instance, all it would be good for (I think) would be a very truncated personality descriptor.</p><p></p><p>I have a certain fondness for the (pre-Planescape, pre-DDG) version of the "ghostly dinner plate". I quite like it when the aligned planes more-or-less take the place of the gods and their myths. Lev Lafayette captures something like this aspect in an <a href="http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?313743-RPG-AD-D-Players-Handbook-reviewed-by-Lev-Lafayette-(4-1)/page13&" target="_blank">RPGnet review of Gygax's PHB</a>:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">The final section of the book includes an alignment graph (without systematic suggestions for use) and the planes of existence, including the rather evocative assignment of Earthly polytheistic pantheons within the AD&D alignment system.</p><p></p><p>What I personally don't like about the DDG/Planescape approach is that, instead of Gladsheim being <em>the</em> plane of the Norse pantheon, it becomes a distinct place where (some of) the Norse Gods, plus sundry others, plus in due course Eladrin, hang out. That is just silly, in my view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6156140, member: 42582"] For me, at least (in legacy view) it's the green star at the left bottom of the post. The rest of your post all makes sense. I agree that 4e alignment presupposes a certain sort of campaign. In Dark Sun, for instance, all it would be good for (I think) would be a very truncated personality descriptor. I have a certain fondness for the (pre-Planescape, pre-DDG) version of the "ghostly dinner plate". I quite like it when the aligned planes more-or-less take the place of the gods and their myths. Lev Lafayette captures something like this aspect in an [url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?313743-RPG-AD-D-Players-Handbook-reviewed-by-Lev-Lafayette-(4-1)/page13&]RPGnet review of Gygax's PHB[/url]: [indent]The final section of the book includes an alignment graph (without systematic suggestions for use) and the planes of existence, including the rather evocative assignment of Earthly polytheistic pantheons within the AD&D alignment system.[/indent] What I personally don't like about the DDG/Planescape approach is that, instead of Gladsheim being [I]the[/I] plane of the Norse pantheon, it becomes a distinct place where (some of) the Norse Gods, plus sundry others, plus in due course Eladrin, hang out. That is just silly, in my view. [/QUOTE]
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