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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6122055" data-attributes="member: 42582">Given board rules, I'll refrain from discussing the many real-world answers to that question!But the point I was making is slightly different: if the god of mercy is LG or NG (which is pretty standard in most campaign worlds, I think), but Good is an arbitary label for some imaginary &quot;cosmic force&quot;, then it turns out that the god of mercy, in pursuing mercy (which ex hypothesi I assume that god has an excellent grasp of), might change alignment. Which frankly strikes me as bizarre.To put it another way, there is a reason most campaigns have their god of mercy as LG or NG. It's because most D&amp;D play is actually structured around the assumption that &quot;good&quot; and &quot;evil&quot;, as they appear in alignment designations, carry more-or-less their real world meaning. Nowhere in the rulebooks is there any suggestion that alignment refers to fictional morality and fictional ideals.Yes.My point is that, if LG is a more-or-less arbitrary designation unconnected to actual values and ideals, it doesn't really make sense that the LG paladins are nice guys, and the anti-paladins not?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6122055, member: 42582"] Given board rules, I'll refrain from discussing the many real-world answers to that question! But the point I was making is slightly different: if the god of mercy is LG or NG (which is pretty standard in most campaign worlds, I think), but Good is an arbitary label for some imaginary "cosmic force", then it turns out that the god of mercy, in pursuing mercy (which ex hypothesi I assume that god has an excellent grasp of), might change alignment. Which frankly strikes me as bizarre. To put it another way, there is a reason most campaigns have their god of mercy as LG or NG. It's because most D&D play is actually structured around the assumption that "good" and "evil", as they appear in alignment designations, carry more-or-less their real world meaning. Nowhere in the rulebooks is there any suggestion that alignment refers to fictional morality and fictional ideals. Yes. My point is that, if LG is a more-or-less arbitrary designation unconnected to actual values and ideals, it doesn't really make sense that the LG paladins are nice guys, and the anti-paladins not? [/QUOTE]

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