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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 5217669" data-attributes="member: 20805">Very interesting discussion and historical conversations here..&nbsp;My one-line explanations of the alignments goes thusly:Good: Other-centric, pursuing others advantage at personal costEvil: Self-centric, pursuing your advantage at the cost of othersNuetral: Cost-centric, pursuing the path of least cost to the best advantageLawful: Following a code or set of external rulesChaotic: Following a code or set of internal rulesNuetral: Situational morals, doing what feels right at the time without regard to a code, rules, or previous choices.&nbsp;The caveats to this are that alignments are based on the society of the character and the knowledge that the character has. A LG Paladin who's leadership sets a code that says 'all Orcs are evil and must die' will, beleiving his/her actions are good, commit genocide on the Orcs. Others, the Orcs specifically, would see these actions as evil. But ... I don't really use alignments in my game and haven't since 1e timeframe. And I echo from upthread... for alignments to work you need to define 'Evil'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 5217669, member: 20805"] Very interesting discussion and historical conversations here.. My one-line explanations of the alignments goes thusly: Good: Other-centric, pursuing others advantage at personal cost Evil: Self-centric, pursuing your advantage at the cost of others Nuetral: Cost-centric, pursuing the path of least cost to the best advantage Lawful: Following a code or set of external rules Chaotic: Following a code or set of internal rules Nuetral: Situational morals, doing what feels right at the time without regard to a code, rules, or previous choices. The caveats to this are that alignments are based on the society of the character and the knowledge that the character has. A LG Paladin who's leadership sets a code that says 'all Orcs are evil and must die' will, beleiving his/her actions are good, commit genocide on the Orcs. Others, the Orcs specifically, would see these actions as evil. But ... I don't really use alignments in my game and haven't since 1e timeframe. And I echo from upthread... for alignments to work you need to define 'Evil' [/QUOTE]

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