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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaran" data-source="post: 4804805" data-attributes="member: 56710">I've been rather quiet since starting this thread but this statement right here strikes true to me.     I feel that there is quite a bit lacking in 4e when it comes to fostering roleplaying.    The game is so mechanics driven that even interactions outside of combat have been turned into skill challenges. The alignments might just be one word but they are supposed to give some guideline to GMs when they are creating their story.  I want to put emphasis on the word "story" because that's what a roleplaying game was designed for: To make a story that unfolds as the players roleplay their characters through. To me, the monsters manuals shouldn't just be a list of monsters that would be used in a conflict, violent or non.  It should be a catelog of non-player cast-members for the story.   I find the fact that I need my third edition monster manuals and DMG to get useful background information extremely annoying.   There should be good aligned monsters because the player characters are not going to be alone in the fight against evil and they should have stats as well because there will be times when the players will get to fight along side those monsters.  When the first MM came out, I told my friends that the Metallic Dragons were left out because they were good creatures and not necessarily needed in the first round when they can put more monsters that can be fought into the game.  Imagine my disappointment when they are put in and were made to be "adversaries" to quote the podcast that they just issued.   Can I take a marker and scratch out the word and put in "Good"?  Sure.  But that doesn't change that fact that new dnd players will never know that gold dragons used to be one of the good guys and are now just greedy dragons that like to take control of weaker races. I understand that there are many people out there that think this is just a silly arguement over something that doesn't matter in the game.   Personally, I think that the things that don't matter in combat or the skill challenges make the game a roleplaying game and not just an analog instance multiplayer game.   I also think that having threads like this does little .  People, including the developers, have their minds set and aren't going to back down or change the game just because I feel like the game has moved away from story creation to dungeon simulation.   I guess I made this thread because I wanted to protest the fact that something of the game that wasn't broken was altered for no reason other than so players can have "conflict" with a creature without having to be evil PCs. By the way,  while i won't mark out the word Unaligned in my book, the gold dragons in my game will be Good creatures.  The same goes for unicorns and probably even angels, since i kind of think that devils and demons would take the roles of fallen angels and minions of evil gods.   Not that anyone besides my own player group cares.</blockquote>

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