D&D General Keys from the Golden Vault look through.

[FrozenNorth]

I guess it's not a heist if it's for altruistic reasons. It can only be a heist if it's for personal gain.

Oooh! I know this one! Like it’s only meta humor if it’s cynical and mean-spirited, not if it’s wholesome.

 

[Reynard]

If I say X, then I know what I meant. If someone quotes me, and says actually it's Y, it's not hard to see these subjective interpretations being articulated as arguments.


People have tried -- and failed -- to dump alignment in D&D for years.

I bet lots of people have succeeded. Only WotC seems to be having a hard time with it.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I bet lots of people have succeeded. Only WotC seems to be having a hard time with it.

Because lots of people don’t want it dumped.

 

[dave2008]

What you quoted, was in context of a lawful good gold dragon. If the dragon is not lawful good, then it's a different story.

It's not that hard for you to read what people write and respond in context. End of story.

Sorry. In an earlier comment you said by RAW gold dragons couldn't be anything but lawful good. I pointed out how that wasn't true in the MM and you never responded. So I mistakenly thought you were still talking about I misunderstanding of RAW. I missed the comments in between, my apologies.

 

[Reynard]

Because lots of people don’t want it dumped.

I don't think anyone would refuse to buy 1D&D because it scrapped alignment, if it did so. The majority of new players seem to have a strong dislike for alignment in the first place, and old hands that want it would just house rule it back in.

 

[Maxperson]

Not all gold dragon's are lawful good: end of story. It is not that hard.

You also don't need to be unlawful to support Goldfinger, er the Golden Vault.

 

[Maxperson]

What you quoted, was in context of a lawful good gold dragon. If the dragon is not lawful good, then it's a different story.

It's not that hard for you to read what people write and respond in context. End of story.

In D&D lawful can mean other things than "follows the laws." Also end of story. Let's see if this story can end as often as Brady's football career.

 

[Emoshin]

In D&D lawful can mean other things than "follows the laws." Also end of story. Let's see if this story can end as often as Brady's football career.

Luckily for us, I don't actually enjoy arguing. Arguing is only an ends to a means, where the means is some sort of progress. So end of story.

 

[Clint_L]

If I say X, then I know what I meant. If someone quotes me, and says actually it's Y, it's not hard to see these subjective interpretations being articulated as arguments.


People have tried -- and failed -- to dump alignment in D&D for years.

It's not hard. I haven't used alignment in decades. Removing it from the game makes the story much more sensible, in my experience. YVMV.

It's fine as a optional rule, which is what it has become. It's a fun artifact of D&D's origins, and I happily ignore it.

 

[Emoshin]

It's not hard. I haven't used alignment in decades. Removing it from the game makes the story much more sensible, in my experience. YVMV.

In my game, I have alignment but it's just a very vague frame of reference and it barely has any weight.

I just find myself engaging with alignment references on Enworld because that's a shared terminology that keeps going around

To @dave2008 's earlier point, I regret even bringing it up with metallic dragons in general. I was incorrect on the RAW interpretation (I forgot that was changed) which in itself was always jumping off an earlier note about the Golden Vault's alignment