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<blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2551715" data-attributes="member: 13164">From the 3E Monster Manual (because I'm a loyal Cultist to the end):A society is not a character, so it cannot have an alignment.&nbsp; What a society can have is individual tendencies toward a specific alignment.&nbsp; This is what the goblin's alignment entry of &quot;Usually neutral evil&quot; means.&nbsp; I would consider non-evil goblin settlements to be infrequent and not likely understood as such by the outside world, loathed by their evil kin, and forced to fight even their own to survive.&nbsp; Such a society would likely have adopted the worship of a deity other than Maglubiyet.&nbsp; In my own campaign, I would develop a story behind this tribe involving a Neutral goblin cleric of Maglubiyet who fell out of grace with his deity and was forced to flee his tribe.As they do not have an &quot;Always&quot; alignment entry, goblins can change alignment.&nbsp; Their tendencies may be toward evil, but what the paladin was seeking could certainly have been a possibility.&nbsp; The difficulty in finding a neutral goblin tribe, however, makes this too much of a daunting task for the paladin.&nbsp; A truly merciful act on the paladin's part would have been to find another goblin tribe of any alignment to give the children to.&nbsp; Sometimes the helping of a creature with Evil alignment can be a Good act.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="genshou, post: 2551715, member: 13164"] From the 3E Monster Manual (because I'm a loyal Cultist to the end): A society is not a character, so it cannot have an alignment. What a society can have is individual tendencies toward a specific alignment. This is what the goblin's alignment entry of "Usually neutral evil" means. I would consider non-evil goblin settlements to be infrequent and not likely understood as such by the outside world, loathed by their evil kin, and forced to fight even their own to survive. Such a society would likely have adopted the worship of a deity other than Maglubiyet. In my own campaign, I would develop a story behind this tribe involving a Neutral goblin cleric of Maglubiyet who fell out of grace with his deity and was forced to flee his tribe. As they do not have an "Always" alignment entry, goblins can change alignment. Their tendencies may be toward evil, but what the paladin was seeking could certainly have been a possibility. The difficulty in finding a neutral goblin tribe, however, makes this too much of a daunting task for the paladin. A truly merciful act on the paladin's part would have been to find another goblin tribe of any alignment to give the children to. Sometimes the helping of a creature with Evil alignment can be a Good act. [/QUOTE]

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