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<blockquote data-quote="Harlekin" data-source="post: 4815872" data-attributes="member: 18615"><p>What I find interesting when reading the MM2 is that the actual descriptions of Dragon behavior have not changed; gold dragons are still noble and silver dragons (and couatl) still crusade for good. The designers apparently did not change the creatures, they changed the goalposts. They put the bar higher for a creature to be considered good.</p><p></p><p>In older editions, a creature was often assigned a good alignment if ist description said kill evil no matter what and woe you if you get in its way. One could just as easily argue that such a creature is fighting for good, but because of its choice of methods is actually not so good itself. Most races that were potential allies were considered good just for that reason. </p><p></p><p>One example for me would be the Dragonlance Metallic Dragons in the original series. Watching civilizations burn and thousands die and doing nothing about it because you are concerned for the safety of few of your kin is selfish and could be considered unaligned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harlekin, post: 4815872, member: 18615"] What I find interesting when reading the MM2 is that the actual descriptions of Dragon behavior have not changed; gold dragons are still noble and silver dragons (and couatl) still crusade for good. The designers apparently did not change the creatures, they changed the goalposts. They put the bar higher for a creature to be considered good. In older editions, a creature was often assigned a good alignment if ist description said kill evil no matter what and woe you if you get in its way. One could just as easily argue that such a creature is fighting for good, but because of its choice of methods is actually not so good itself. Most races that were potential allies were considered good just for that reason. One example for me would be the Dragonlance Metallic Dragons in the original series. Watching civilizations burn and thousands die and doing nothing about it because you are concerned for the safety of few of your kin is selfish and could be considered unaligned. [/QUOTE]
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