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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5363328" data-attributes="member: 9037">There is a difference between a character pretending to be good and not being so than one who truly believes he is good but does not find it convenient so tortures prisoners for information because it is the easiest path. One is a role playing choice the other is just lazy gaming.Like I said I have never encounter any issues with alignment in my 30 years of gaming at the table. Maybe if I had I would feel different and be anti alignment.As a player I have never had a DM punish or had an argument with a DM over my alignment. As I said before I see alignment as a tool to help role playing choices and not a straitjacket. Just because someone is lawful good most of the time does not mean that they are not ever going to something chaotic and I don't see that as an issue even for paladins. I had a player playing a paladin break the law of a city by saving some children from having their hands cut off for stealing. What he did may have been an unlawful act but it was a good act and in character for this paladin who was more about redemption than punishing wrong doers. He played his character consistently. As a DM I would never use the rules to punish a player for role playing choices if I had an issue I would talk about it and take it out of game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 5363328, member: 9037"] There is a difference between a character pretending to be good and not being so than one who truly believes he is good but does not find it convenient so tortures prisoners for information because it is the easiest path. One is a role playing choice the other is just lazy gaming. Like I said I have never encounter any issues with alignment in my 30 years of gaming at the table. Maybe if I had I would feel different and be anti alignment. As a player I have never had a DM punish or had an argument with a DM over my alignment. As I said before I see alignment as a tool to help role playing choices and not a straitjacket. Just because someone is lawful good most of the time does not mean that they are not ever going to something chaotic and I don't see that as an issue even for paladins. I had a player playing a paladin break the law of a city by saving some children from having their hands cut off for stealing. What he did may have been an unlawful act but it was a good act and in character for this paladin who was more about redemption than punishing wrong doers. He played his character consistently. As a DM I would never use the rules to punish a player for role playing choices if I had an issue I would talk about it and take it out of game. [/QUOTE]

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