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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5684444" data-attributes="member: 19675">Fair enough, but IME, I haven't seen anything resembling a classic literary paladin in any RPG without alignment mechanics.How is it not pertinent to distinguish between playing a game by the rules and not playing the game by the rules/with deep misunderstanding of the rules?It's like saying you don't like playing poker because the guys you play with insist that 2 pairs beats a full house.Amusing rhetoric, but I don't see alignment as any more *ahem* inflammatory to game play as any other element of pre-4Ed D&amp;D.Nor does it change my earlier point that it's far easier to ignore alignment in a system that uses it than it is to add an intricate alignment system to a system that doesn't.&nbsp; D&amp;D lost something many felt worth keeping that those who didn't like it could have continued to ignore as they had in the past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5684444, member: 19675"] Fair enough, but IME, I haven't seen anything resembling a classic literary paladin in any RPG without alignment mechanics. How is it not pertinent to distinguish between playing a game by the rules and not playing the game by the rules/with deep misunderstanding of the rules? It's like saying you don't like playing poker because the guys you play with insist that 2 pairs beats a full house. Amusing rhetoric, but I don't see alignment as any more[I] *ahem* [/I]inflammatory to game play as any other element of pre-4Ed D&D. Nor does it change my earlier point that it's far easier to ignore alignment in a system that uses it than it is to add an intricate alignment system to a system that doesn't. D&D lost something many felt worth keeping that those who didn't like it could have continued to ignore as they had in the past. [/QUOTE]

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