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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jawsh" data-source="post: 4243557" data-attributes="member: 17061">If the new alignment system is what I'm guessing it is, then I'm pretty sure I like it. Here's my take on it, and I'm probably going to stick to my take whether it turns out to be right or wrong. Lawful Good: Lawful Good combines the 3E alignments of Lawful Neutral and Lawful Good. Any character interested in the good of a larger group is going to be fostering cooperation, unity, respect, and harmony. Law is basically a positive force in the multiverse, as it is what holds societies together. Because I'm keeping the Great Wheel cosmology in my homebrew campaign setting, the following planes will be Lawful Good: Nirvana, Arcadia, Celestia, Bytopia. Good: Good combines the 3E alignments of Chaotic Good and Neutral Good. Any character solely interested in the sanctity of life, the dignity of the human (or other sentient) spirit, and freedom for the purpose of the pursuit of happiness, is Good. The following planes are Good: Elysium, the Beastlands, Arborea, Ysgard. Chaotic Evil: combines the 3E alignments of Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil. There is no longer such a thing as being morally ambivalent toward Good and Evil. That is to say, if you are Chaotic without any qualms about human life and dignity, then you're defined as Chaotic Evil. You might not be a psychopathic killer, but if you lack a minimum level of empathy toward your fellow human beings, then cosmically speaking, you're Chaotic Evil. Chaos means interest in the self, the whims of the self, without regard to how it affects other people. If you did care about other people, then you would be Good, not Chaotic. Chaotic planes: Limbo, Pandemonium, the Abyss, Carceri. Evil: combines the 3E alignments of Lawful Evil and Neutral Evil. In this new system, Law is defined as a positive force designed to allow communities to hold together. Evil, like Chaos, is also selfish, but it is less interested in personal freedom than it is in personal gain. Evil can sometimes work within lawful society, but this is an accident. Evil planes: Hades, Gehenna, Baator, Acheron. Unaligned: is the new True Neutral. The most common way to be unaligned is to be non-sentient. If you're a typical human being living in a typical human society, you're probably Lawful Good. Contrary to what has been said by some in this thread, most sentient people do have an alignment. Unaligned folks are either those with severely limited mental capacity, or hermits who have taken strict oaths of non-involvement. Unaligned planes: the Outlands.</blockquote>

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