Man, my friends and I were happily ignoring alignment since the 90's and our AD&D 2e games. I can clearly remember most of my favorite 3.X characters I ever played; I don't think I could remember what their "listed" alignment was, and I struggle to peg them anywhere on the nine-point scale even in retrospect.
Also, I know it's small potatoes and not even the worst example of this particular style of awfulness from Gygax, but I had to double-take at:
My rule of thumb is this-
50% of the people don't read any of the OP.
70% of the people don't read the OP carefully.
85% of the people that do read the OP? They don't bother opening any spoilers.
And approximately ALL OF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THE LINKS I PROVIDE!!!
If'n you ain't the granddaddy of all liars.
The little creatures of nature, they don't know that they're ugly.
That's very funny, a fly marrying a bumblebee.
I TOLD YOU ID SHOOT! BUT YOU DIDNT BELIEVE ME! WHY DIDNT YOU BELIEVE ME!!!! JUST FOLLOW THE LINKS!
Sorry, had to get that off my chest, nothing to do with your comment. But I read that, and I was just like ... yeah, those names. For those of you who don't dig on spoilers, here's the full list that was in the spoiler, with my friend, SNARFZODIAKILLER, providing some comments.
The Seven Heavens of absolute lawful good.
GYGAX! WHY U STICK TO SNAKIN ME??? I WANNA ROCK, NOT HAVE HOLY WATER ON MY CHEERIOS! DONT MAKE ME TELL YOU THAT YOU ACCIDENTALLY ISLAM'D IT!
The Twin Paradises of neutral good lawfuls.
NOW U JUST MAKIN STUFF UP. OH. GUESS THATS BETTER THAN TAKING THE REAL STUFF? PICK ONE THING OR THE OTHER SO I KNOW WHY IM MAD AT U!!!!!
The planes of Elysium of neutral good.
I DONT GET IT. ITS ALL GREEK TO ME.
The Happy Hunting Grounds of neutral good chaotics.
NO U DINNIT! I HAVE A NIT TO PICK WIT U NOW!
The planes of Olympus of absolute good chaotics.
THATZ THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE THE SERENGETI! GYGAX WAS THE FIRST YACHT ROCKER????
The planes of Gladsheim (Asgard, Valhalla, Vanaheim, etc.) of chaotic good neutrals.
NOT GONNA COMMENT ON THIS. IF I DO IT SUMMONS BEETLEJUICE.
The planes of Limbo of neutral (absolute) chaos (entropy).
CARDINAL DIRECTIONS! FEEL LIKE THEREZ A TREND.....
The Planes of Pandemonium of chaotic evil neutrals.
MILTON DIDNT LOSE WHERE ALL THESE THINGS R COMIN FROM, GARY. IMA ONTO U!
The 666 layers of the Abyss of absolute chaotic evil.
...IS A FOURTH LEVEL CLERIC A VICAR IN A TUTU?
The planes of Tarterus of evil chaotic neutrals.
OTHER THAN ALL THAT GOOD BOOK STUFF, ITS GREEKER THAN YOGURT
Hades "Three Glooms" of absolute (neutral) evil.
HADES WASNT ENUFF FOR YA?
The furnaces of Gehenna of lawful evil neutrals.
SOMEONE HAD A THESAURUS, BUT IT ONLY HAD SYNONYMS FOR HELL. AND GREEK STUFF. NOT THAT THEREZ ANYTHING WRONG WITH GREEK STUFF. WE COOL.
The Nine Hells of absolute lawful evil.
I GUESS THE THESAURUS RAN OUT OF WORDZ?
The nether planes of Acheron of lawful evil neutrals.
CRY ME A RIVER.
Nirvana of absolute (neutral) lawfuls.
SMELLS LIKE SOMEONE FOUND A NEW CULTURE!
The planes of Arcadia of neutral good lawfuls.
AND THEN SAID, NAW, IMA GOOD WITH THE GREEKS.
Snarf comment-
That's a total of:
Six that refer to biblical (of some type) things.
Six Greek.
One Native American.
One ... we will say sanskrit ...
One Suel.
And one that .... eh, combines words.
