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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7844304" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think these would be great but I agree that they don't suit every game so should probably be optional. </p><p></p><p>Personally alignment change mechanics and idiocy like Evil people do Necrotic, Good people do Radiant is the most awful stuff to me. It doesn't even work thematically and is ridiculous and limiting. 5E has a particularly brain dead bit of this with Angels, who serve Good deities, whereas Neutral and Evil deities have no servants (demons and devils are ironically ruled out as such by the same book). Angels are messengers and should serve all actual god-gods, like 4E, whereas people like Asmodeus could have devils/demons. Likewise necrotic or radiant or whatever should be down to the specific god, not the alignment of the god, let alone the alignment of the PC!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7844304, member: 18"] I think these would be great but I agree that they don't suit every game so should probably be optional. Personally alignment change mechanics and idiocy like Evil people do Necrotic, Good people do Radiant is the most awful stuff to me. It doesn't even work thematically and is ridiculous and limiting. 5E has a particularly brain dead bit of this with Angels, who serve Good deities, whereas Neutral and Evil deities have no servants (demons and devils are ironically ruled out as such by the same book). Angels are messengers and should serve all actual god-gods, like 4E, whereas people like Asmodeus could have devils/demons. Likewise necrotic or radiant or whatever should be down to the specific god, not the alignment of the god, let alone the alignment of the PC! [/QUOTE]
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