Social Commentary

[Hand of Evil]

You can’t read something like A Song of Ice and Fire and believe that there are many truly “lawful good” knights – even if they are on the “right” side (whatever that is!).

Man, I can only imagine what it would be like if T-Bill, SHARK and I were in the same group. I know one thing, it would be a helluva good time! I’ll bring the Rolling Rock (sorry T-B – for you a nice Glenlivit(sp?)).

But is the world of 'A Song of Fire and Ice' a place to find the concept of lawful good? It is one of change, of chaos. I don't think a lawful good character/paladin would last very long in that world.

 

[herald]

I have often felt that the characters are never truly completely with in alignment. Being mortal doesn't allow for absolutes. But what it does allow for is characters to try and be as close as posible to ideal.

There are events that will happen that make people act contrary to thier beliefs all the time do to mitigating circumstances.

 

[King_Stannis]

But is the world of 'A Song of Fire and Ice' a place to find the concept of lawful good? It is one of change, of chaos. I don't think a lawful good character/paladin would last very long in that world.

good point. as someone who is almost done reading the elric saga, i find many parallels between the chaos driven world of moorcock and martin's westeros. martin himself has said he doesn't quite believe any character is truly "good or bad", just ones that lean more one way than the other.

 

[Teflon Billy]

That he managed to make me kind of like Jaime Lannister and Sandor "The Hound" Clegane shows that, at least as a writer, he seems to belive that all people have some worth.

Except maybe Sandor's elder brother GRegor "The Mountain that Rides" Clegane.

He seems to be all bad.

 

[shadow]

At one time I thought about including goblin "suicide bombers" in my campaign. (partially inspired by warcraft 2 and Magic the Gathering: Fallen Empires) Believing that paradise awaited them in the afterlife as a reward for their "martyrdom", these fanatical goblins would blow themselves as a means of attack against the "infidels" (those who didn't trust in the goblin pantheon, or the goblin empire) But since the start intifatah in Israel I decided to can that idea, since it didn't seem right to make light of the situation.