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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8349106" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Of your interpretation of alignment. I've seen probably dozens of interpretations of alignments over the years. Why is yours better.Then how does that alignment help you determine their personality?I'm still waiting for people to tell me how they make any use of it. So far, it always seems to be used as an circularly-reasoned afterthought. Basically every single conversation I've had on this goes as follows:"I want there to be a bad guy race. Orcs are evil. Therefore, I will use orcs as the bad guy race." Why are orcs evil? "The books say that it's because they're warlike and aggressive." Why are they warlike and aggressive? "Because they're evil. Anyway, if you want there to be one or two orcs that aren't warlike and aggressive, you can make them. Even though everyone else in the entire world will think they're warlike and aggressive." But why are they warlike and aggressive? What makes them that way? And why are there other races that are warlike and aggressive but listed as being neutral or good?"Look, I just want to kill some orcs. Are you telling me my fun is wrong?" No, but why not have zombies, constructs, demons, bandits, slavers, and cultists as bad guys? Why not have orcs be like humans, in that some are good, some are neutral, some are evil, and some are "it's complicated"?"Because orcs are evil!" This last statement may also take the form of "Oh, well, we might as well make demons good now!" or "so now all people who murder travelers for their money are evil, hmm?" or "You're using alignment wrong! You have to use it exactly like I do to use it right"</blockquote>

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