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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nichwee" data-source="post: 5161326" data-attributes="member: 84242">TBH I was glad to see Alignment take a major back seat.It was silly, imo, assuming a person radiated a fixed alignment signature all the time, and it could show up regardless of current actions or intentions.Plus I hated the fact that Law & Choas were considered opposed. Law is the opposite of crime, order is the opposite of Chaos. You could argue that they used Lawful as Orderly but they didn't in 3rd Ed. The Arcane Trickster had to be non-lawful as it was a arcane criminal, but I always liked playing a very ordered and merticulous rogue/wizard I had invented - but he could never take the Arcane Trickster prestige class just cos my guy was by no means Chaotic - in fact he hated the idea of chaos in anything he did (precision, planning and preperation were his most important ideals).Law and Evil are perfectly connectable, as are Good and Chaos (Evil/Good are about intents, Law and Choas are about methodology so no reason they limit each other) but the need for them to be fixed in stone is silly. An action can be Lawful or not, Evil or not, etc. A person is just a person. At times their intents and actions are one thing or another, but they just are. Imo alignment could be reduced to "Nice Guy", "Average" and "Git" and be just as valid and useful. The world shouldn't need your alignment to function so why should it matter how it is labeled. I think next edition (or as a suggested varient in 4th Ed) they should have the PCs pick from a group of descriptors instead of picking an alignment at all. Then you wouldn't get "Good" you'd get, for example, "Self sacrificing", "Nervous", "Studious" and "Methodical". This would do a lot more to help define how someone reacts but still leave more than enough room to cover "special cases" where the nervous bookworm acts rashly couragous cos the situation requires it - then spends the next 10 mintues shaking like a leaf muttering to himself along the lines of "I can't believe I did that. I could have made things even worse. I think I need to sit down for a minute".</blockquote>

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