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<blockquote data-quote="PhantomNarrator" data-source="post: 3464602" data-attributes="member: 39649">You won't find me arguing that there are no problems with the alignment system. Nothing as complex as a person, even a fictional person, can be adequately described by an alignment - whole biographies can be written on someone and still there would be room for argument. Alignments are&nbsp; not there to determine your personality, but your attitudes towards how society should be organized and respect for sentient life. Since these are very complex subjects in our own world and in the best fiction, you should hardly be surprised by the occasional disagreement.What I think we need is a more robust alignment system, perhaps rated by degree, so that adhering to alignment is more important for certain characters than others. Combined with a loyalty and reputation system, this should solve most of the more ambiguous points. Even better would be individual codes of conduct broken down by church, even if it is as simple to say that any and all actions are permitted. Alignments can then move more to the background as a kind of distant moral constant that influences the world indirectly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PhantomNarrator, post: 3464602, member: 39649"] You won't find me arguing that there are no problems with the alignment system. Nothing as complex as a person, even a fictional person, can be adequately described by an alignment - whole biographies can be written on someone and still there would be room for argument. Alignments are not there to determine your personality, but your attitudes towards how society should be organized and respect for sentient life. Since these are very complex subjects in our own world and in the best fiction, you should hardly be surprised by the occasional disagreement. What I think we need is a more robust alignment system, perhaps rated by degree, so that adhering to alignment is more important for certain characters than others. Combined with a loyalty and reputation system, this should solve most of the more ambiguous points. Even better would be individual codes of conduct broken down by church, even if it is as simple to say that any and all actions are permitted. Alignments can then move more to the background as a kind of distant moral constant that influences the world indirectly. [/QUOTE]

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