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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3160359" data-attributes="member: 11760">The media does that? Boy, religions, ethnic divides, political divides, economic divides and geography really must have been slacking lately.People have divided themselves up into &quot;us&quot; and &quot;them&quot; back when &quot;them&quot; meant &quot;the tribe in the next cave over.&quot;Blaming the media is just a convenient way of washing humanity's collective hands of something that's an inherent part of being a social animal: tribalism.As for the OP's question, I really believe Gygax just wanted a way for paladins and the like to be able to spot demons and other bad-to-the-bone types without having a million fiddly different powers for each specific type, and also to have broad &quot;smash the bad guy&quot; powers.D&amp;D works fine without alignment; people do it all the time. It also can be made to work, as well. Certainly it's a lot better nowadays than in previous editions with &quot;alignment language&quot; silliness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 3160359, member: 11760"] The [i]media[/i] does that? Boy, religions, ethnic divides, political divides, economic divides and geography really must have been slacking lately. People have divided themselves up into "us" and "them" back when "them" meant "the tribe in the next cave over." Blaming the media is just a convenient way of washing humanity's collective hands of something that's an inherent part of being a social animal: tribalism. As for the OP's question, I really believe Gygax just wanted a way for paladins and the like to be able to spot demons and other bad-to-the-bone types without having a million fiddly different powers for each specific type, and also to have broad "smash the bad guy" powers. D&D works fine without alignment; people do it all the time. It also can be made to work, as well. Certainly it's a lot better nowadays than in previous editions with "alignment language" silliness. [/QUOTE]

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