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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 4625987" data-attributes="member: 34958">Well, I still need people to flesh out the details of their characters, so we are not ready to start yet.  I would like to start by the weekend, but we can give some leeway depending on how everything seems to be going.  Do you have a name for your character?I wanted to post my response to a question someone had <wink> since I think the group could benefit."I'm completely fine with characters who are not the defined 3.5 DnD model of good.  Gary Gygax had more interesting commentary on alignment than most people.  He considered it a lawful good act for a paladin to behead captured and reformed orcs since they would likely resort to form once left to their own devices.  He believed in alignment as more as a moral philosophy that could be debated between player and DM, and so do I.  If you noticed in the character forms I set-up, I completely skipped the alignment section.  There will be no alignment except that most likely the PCs will be considered lawful, most NPC will be neutral, and the villianous NPCs chaotic.  Chaotic in original DnD meant the forces of chaos.  Someone who is simply selfish and out to steal for personal power and wealth might be neutral.  Someone looking to cause the deaths of a town to please some dark god and further his personal power would be chaotic."In essence, I expect the characters to be noble in heart, but not lilly-white heroes.  This is a grim world we'll be adventuring in.  At the same time, characters that are completely immoral will have an equally tough time as there will be a response to their antics.  Characters who are too charitable will be taken advantage of by the City-State's citizens, but characters who are a danger to the society will be taken down by them.</blockquote>

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