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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8694352" data-attributes="member: 6855114">My table exactly knows what evil is. So do you.Alignments only serves as a guide line both for PCs and NPCs. A simple tool. Nothing more, nothing less.And without alignment, your session zero on &quot;what is ok or not&quot; must be way bigger than mine when facing new players. Explaining alignment takes about a minute or two. Evil do bad things, Good do good things. Lawful follow law and order. Chaos do not like constrains. Neutral has no real preference on these issue think of it as a balanced view. Finished. As for your example: Who is Jack Sparrow? I actually had to lend my DVDs to a friend that do not watch movies (nor tv). He slept on the first movie, did not watch the rest. Too boring. But he plays with us. No cinematic references can get in your way.Back to alignments. Hey a teenager understands it very fast (I was 10 when I started to play and I understood alignment immediately). I have made groups with teenagers and absolutely none of them, ever, have had any troubles with alignments. Heck, even adults get the concepts quite fast, under two minutes. Vague? Just the limits, not the basics.If you go too far on alignment, that is where you get problems. Use it as vague guidelines and session zero about what you can or can't do is faster than explaining concepts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8694352, member: 6855114"] My table exactly knows what evil is. So do you. Alignments only serves as a guide line both for PCs and NPCs. A simple tool. Nothing more, nothing less. And without alignment, your session zero on "what is ok or not" must be way bigger than mine when facing new players. Explaining alignment takes about a minute or two. Evil do bad things, Good do good things. Lawful follow law and order. Chaos do not like constrains. Neutral has no real preference on these issue think of it as a balanced view. Finished. As for your example: Who is Jack Sparrow? I actually had to lend my DVDs to a friend that do not watch movies (nor tv). He slept on the first movie, did not watch the rest. Too boring. But he plays with us. No cinematic references can get in your way. Back to alignments. Hey a teenager understands it very fast (I was 10 when I started to play and I understood alignment immediately). I have made groups with teenagers and absolutely none of them, ever, have had any troubles with alignments. Heck, even adults get the concepts quite fast, under two minutes. Vague? Just the limits, not the basics. If you go too far on alignment, that is where you get problems. Use it as vague guidelines and session zero about what you can or can't do is faster than explaining concepts. [/QUOTE]

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