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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Markn" data-source="post: 1914659" data-attributes="member: 21827">To each their own...Aesmal, I'm not sure if the last paragraph of your post is referring to my system or the person in the quote.  If it does apply to me then your right that there is certain limits to progressing your alignment and you are correct that it is due to practicality and personal preference.  To me it seems that if someones actions are constant within a specific behaviour such as LG there is not much point in tracking it to its infinite number beyond 10.  No matter how good you become it still only takes a certain amount of behaviour to begin to change who you are.  Once a negative pattern develops then no matter how good you were at one point matters little.  In addition, if someones behaviour is so thoroughly good then slight acts that go against the grain so to speak will always be outwieghed by the significant acts of goodness that are done thus ruling out the need to continue to track the good or lawful componants beyond 10 points.BTW, I have enjoyed that conversation in this thread.  It has altered my look at alignment to some degree and in explaining my point has reinforced certain ideas that I've had as well.  In the beginning I looked at actions as transgressions of who the character is.  Now I realize its through the playing of the character that determines the alignment and not vice versa.  I guess I always new that but could never express it in words before.  I hope others have found this just as insightful. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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