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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5683971" data-attributes="member: 1165">I once read a statistic that there are 750,000 D&amp;D players. (Take that with a grain of salt.) So I like to say there's 750,000 different alignment interpretations.It doesn't help the TSR/WotC has done this poorly, which I suspect is the reason why few people understand law or chaos, or why CN is so despised. I find it a little odd that a wiki <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LawfulEvil" target="_blank">explains these things better than WotC</a>.So what's simple and easy for one person to figure out isn't necessarily easy for another. There will be disagreements even for those who think they have figured it out, and if one is a DM there can be problems. Some people will be reasonable, and some will not.In some editions of the game, you were supposed to do that, with XP penalties. In 3e there was even the atonement spell for that. Of course, there were few if any guidelines on when you should do an alignment change, and every DM who did that had different interpretations as to what would trigger that, how much warning the PC should get, etc.But &quot;right&quot; for that DM. (I think said DM was being unreasonable, but there's no text in the PH or DMG saying he's wrong. How could there be? So he's not breaking any sort of rule there.)To me, the first part there (&quot;a guideline for the player to get in character&quot;) is &quot;wrong&quot; and the second can be dealt with by using house/table rules rather than mechanics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 5683971, member: 1165"] I once read a statistic that there are 750,000 D&D players. (Take that with a grain of salt.) So I like to say there's 750,000 different alignment interpretations. It doesn't help the TSR/WotC has done this poorly, which I suspect is the reason why few people understand law or chaos, or why CN is so despised. I find it a little odd that a wiki [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LawfulEvil]explains these things better than WotC[/url]. So what's simple and easy for one person to figure out isn't necessarily easy for another. There [i]will[/i] be disagreements even for those who think they have figured it out, and if one is a DM there can be problems. Some people will be reasonable, and some will not. In some editions of the game, you were supposed to do that, with XP penalties. In 3e there was even the atonement spell for that. Of course, there were few if any guidelines on when you should do an alignment change, and every DM who did that had different interpretations as to what would trigger that, how much warning the PC should get, etc. But "right" for [i]that[/i] DM. (I think said DM was being unreasonable, but there's no text in the PH or DMG saying he's wrong. How could there be? So he's not breaking any sort of [i]rule[/i] there.) To me, the first part there ("a guideline for the player to get in character") is "wrong" and the second can be dealt with by using house/table rules rather than mechanics. [/QUOTE]

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