Lawful Alignments and Classes

[fusangite]

Ditto. However, from the SRD: The purchase and possession of poison is always illegal, and even in big cities it can be obtained only from specialized, less than reputable sources.

Putting this sort of nonsense in the SRD is what drives me up the wall about D&D -- why should WOTC seek to place limits on what kinds of cultures can exist in its worlds!?

Also, clearly the SRD "code" is not a code; it is a set of parameters for acceptable code design. In my view, it should serve as the basis for a code designed collaboratively by GM and player. A paladin can't very well adhere to a code unique to him, unless he's the only known paladin; after all, how lawful would that be?

 

[Darkness]

Putting this sort of nonsense in the SRD is what drives me up the wall about D&D -- why should WOTC seek to place limits on what kinds of cultures can exist in its worlds!?

Agreed. For example, it's not necessarily illegal in Sharn (Eberron) - just restricted.

(However, it is illegal if it can do permanent damage, more than 1 point of Con damage, or more than 1d6 points to any other ability score.)

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Ditto. However, from the SRD: The purchase and possession of poison is always illegal, and even in big cities it can be obtained only from specialized, less than reputable sources.

Definitely not lawful good....

By the way - legal has absolutely nothing to do [directly] with lawful.

Mafia. 'Nuf said.