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<blockquote data-quote="Helena Real" data-source="post: 8617481" data-attributes="member: 84320">I think the problem is that RAW, the setting books say &quot;good&quot; when they mean lawful good. As you can probably guess, the problems arise when lawful good people start caring more about law than good.In the same fashion, when DL mentions &quot;neutral&quot; it should say &quot;neutral authentic&quot; or &quot;neutral neutral&quot;. &quot;Evil&quot;, as expected, should be &quot;chaotic evil&quot;.The interesting thing is that most stories/adventures set in the setting explore what happens with the other 6 alignment types. What happens when lawful good turns into lawful neutral (and, finally, into lawful evil [although, perhaps, unknowingly])? You get a tyrannical, xenophobic regime that threatens to enslave all of reality. What happens when neutrality discovers that chaotic evil has become too powerful and influential? They join the side of lawful good (and the rest of x-good alignments) to stand against it. What happens when chaotic evil discovers that they need structure in order to succeed? They create an order of lawful evil knights in contrast with the lawful good ones—and so on and so forth.I know that it's an often repeated opinion that DL/Krynn is Manichean in nature, that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you identify as good (or evil, for that matter), but that is not what the setting material nor the fiction support. It's as complex and nuanced as many other fantasy worlds, even it has a bad rep, in my opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helena Real, post: 8617481, member: 84320"] I think the problem is that RAW, the setting books say "good" when they mean [I]lawful[/I] good. As you can probably guess, the problems arise when lawful good people start caring more about law than good. In the same fashion, when DL mentions "neutral" it should say "neutral authentic" or "neutral neutral". "Evil", as expected, should be "chaotic evil". The interesting thing is that most stories/adventures set in the setting explore what happens with the other 6 alignment types. What happens when lawful good turns into lawful neutral (and, finally, into lawful evil [although, perhaps, unknowingly])? You get a tyrannical, xenophobic regime that threatens to enslave all of reality. What happens when neutrality discovers that chaotic evil has become too powerful and influential? They join the side of lawful good (and the rest of x-good alignments) to stand against it. What happens when chaotic evil discovers that they need structure in order to succeed? They create an order of lawful evil knights in contrast with the lawful good ones—and so on and so forth. I know that it's an often repeated opinion that DL/Krynn is Manichean in nature, that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you identify as good (or evil, for that matter), but that is not what the setting material nor the fiction support. It's as complex and nuanced as many other fantasy worlds, even it has a bad rep, in my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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