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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5363404" data-attributes="member: 9037">I don't think it is odd. I am all for players doing whatever they want well I should say within reason. Don't play a paladin if you want to be able to rape, pillage and burn innocents at the stake.As a player and a DM role playing is as important to me as how well you roll in combat.  So I want to play with people who feel the same and who make an effort to play their character with some kind of inner consistency.If you are playing an evil type character who has one rule don't kill children then play your character that way if you play a good character who would never take the life of a helpless person evil or not then play it that way. Don't change it  because it is easier to kill the prisoners than come up with another solution.When I DM if I think a player is not playing his alignment I talk to him out of the game. Maybe the alignment they picked is not a good fit so you simply change the alignment on the sheet no big deal. If the character has alignment aligned items then I simply change the item. If the player wants to keep the alignment he has we talk about it and come to a satisfactory compromise.  I have rarely had any issues that could not be fixed and as I said it does not come up that often. Recently I had a player playing a cleric of Pelor who was playing him very bloodthirsty. He was all about kill everything and let the gods sort it out. As the DM I had issues because I just don't see a cleric of Pelor behaving this way. We talked about it he really liked the character and picked Pelor because of one of the domains.We fixed it by having him switch to St Cuthbert as his god. We role played it out over several sessions and I house ruled that he could keep the one domain based on his previous service to Pelor. In the end everybody was satisfied. IMO when there are arguments and unhappiness at the table over the subject of alignment it usually just a symptom of their being more serious  issues at the table. It could be a difference of playing styles or a sign of a over controlling DM or a whiny player who wants everything his way. Or a host of other issues rearing its head disguised as alignment debates</blockquote>

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