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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 6405637" data-attributes="member: 48965">I don't think you're fully grasping the context or meaning of my statements, which is understandable if you haven't followed the multiple page back and forth going on.&nbsp; When I say alignment isn't absolute, I am saying that being LG, CG, LE, etc. does not in and of itself constitute an absolute, there are variations among LN, CG, and LE and this is backed up by the description of alignment in all editions I am familiar with... even if the detect alignment spell doesn't make that differentiation apparent because the information it gives is not granular enough.&nbsp; As an example of some of this granularity that is missing does a detect alignment spell tell you whether a LG character is alignned more with law or more with good?&nbsp; Or another way of putting it is that within certain boundaries two characters of the same alignment can differ in their behaviors and even their devotion to the cosmological force(s) they are aligned with So are you saying these alignments were specifically defined so as all LG characters wsere exactly the same?&nbsp; If not then they are not absolutist in the sense I am speaking to.I didn't say it was relativistic... I said alignment was not defined in absolutes, they aren't the same thing.&nbsp; Alignments are large umbrellas with certain parameters under which various behaviors, personalities, codes, moral outlooks reside.&nbsp; But they are not defined in absolute terms...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 6405637, member: 48965"] I don't think you're fully grasping the context or meaning of my statements, which is understandable if you haven't followed the multiple page back and forth going on. When I say alignment isn't absolute, I am saying that being LG, CG, LE, etc. does not in and of itself constitute an absolute, there are variations among LN, CG, and LE and this is backed up by the description of alignment in all editions I am familiar with... even if the detect alignment spell doesn't make that differentiation apparent because the information it gives is not granular enough. As an example of some of this granularity that is missing does a detect alignment spell tell you whether a LG character is alignned more with law or more with good? Or another way of putting it is that within certain boundaries two characters of the same alignment can differ in their behaviors and even their devotion to the cosmological force(s) they are aligned with So are you saying these alignments were specifically defined so as all LG characters wsere exactly the same? If not then they are not absolutist in the sense I am speaking to. I didn't say it was relativistic... I said alignment was not defined in absolutes, they aren't the same thing. Alignments are large umbrellas with certain parameters under which various behaviors, personalities, codes, moral outlooks reside. But they are not defined in absolute terms... [/QUOTE]

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