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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5821500" data-attributes="member: 22424">Very occasionally, although not necessarily in those terms.At the outset of the campaign, assuming alignment is going to be a factor at all, I will make sure my players are aware that the NPCs and cultures in the setting will have their beliefs on what is good, lawful, etc, but that they may well be wrong.By contrast, the alignment system in the game, operates according to standards of good and evil, law and chaos as filtered by myself, which suggests a much more 'modern' interpretation of ethics. (I wouldn't presume to actually be 100% right about the nature of good and evil, law and chaos, but I do believe there are some areas where we have made significant progress.)The issue comes when an NPC in the setting will react to his interpretation of what a PC has done, and the player of that PC will then argue with me about how it should be considered good/lawful/whatever. At which point I occasionally have to remind the player that the NPC may well be wrong... but that by itself does not change his opinion. How does his PC react to that NPC in that situation?It sounds to me like your group are having problems separating player action/reaction from character action/reaction.One player has his PC give his word and then the other players take exception to this. But this is a character issue - how do the other PCs respond to their comrade's ill-chosen words?The cleric acts as judge, jury and executioner, and the other players take exception to this. But, again, it's a character issue - do the other PCs agree with the action, and if not how do they respond.And, again, you play the "arrogant nobleman", and the other players take exception. They then have their characters run off, and you take exception. But these are all character issues - shouldn't it be the rogue who confronts your noble over the arrogance, rather than Bob confronting you?</blockquote>

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