D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash

[Professor Murder]

I got the feeling that the whole topic is a jest.
That said, I disagree on the CE idea. Otherwise, most parties convert to CE the moment they enter the dungeon and start killing everything and keeping the loot. If you kill everything, good, evil, neutral, other and also chaotic and lawful, you are being rather neutral about the world balance.

IMO, the whole alignment thing is rather bogus. Do the old school Drow consider themselves Evil because they embrace slavery and living sacrifice? From the Drow perspective, it is those pesky interfering surface Humans that are the true Evil. The Drow are a force for Good and spreading the word of Lolth is spreading the greater good.

The alignment system doesn't care what the individual considers themselves or really too much about their motives, just their actions. Ravenloft did a good job of illustrating this. Several Darklords view themselves as justified or even virtuous. All are Evil in the statline.

 

[Professor Murder]

All that said, some good points here and some people who just wanted to argue about the alignment system and not the actual point put forward with the OP. Thanks for your time tonight.

 

[Scribe]

Again, drifting into trying to apply a game system to real life which is a fools errand.

I mean...kind of, but thats where the line between Good, and Tyranny begins to blur.

If we are not going to those degrees, and Good is simply 'good' then yes, I agree with your premise.

 

[MichaelSomething]

I think Futurama says it best...