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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3877646" data-attributes="member: 4937">My apologies then, but I hope you understand that usually when someone quotes someone and then references them directly ('I think you...') that it is addressed to the person being quoted.  So, hopefully, my confusion is understandable.  Perhaps in the future you'll use a transition phrase to indicate when you've switched who is being addressed.Anything along that line is not something that I can address at any length in this forum.  However, I can say that orthodox Christianity is not dualistic, and Christian groups which emphasis dualism tend to be regarded as sects.My point was in part that altering the D&D cosmology from its presumed polytheism to monotheism was in fact altering a key element of the cosmology, and some consideration in altering other elements needed to be made.  One of the presumed elements of polytheism is that 'evil' (or for that matter 'good') is a thing of real and independent existence.  That need not be the case if in fact we are dealing with a monotheistic world.But asserting a True Neutral, while easy, is nearly the same as asserting what is the correct belief in that cosmology.  D&D traditional avoids this with a cosmology which doesn't impose a belief system on the player.  You can choose what you want to believe.A statement which claims neutrality to be fundamentally correct.No, there doesn't.  Good can have independent existance completely without evil.  It doesn't need a comparison.  It is a real and fundamental thing.  Likewise, someone who believes in evil can make the claim that evil has a real and independent existence, that good is in fact illusionary, and that evil will remain completely in goods absence.</blockquote>

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