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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8039736" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, I'm very happy for you.I've had all sorts of rows about alignment.  Both as a player and a DM.  From new players, experienced players, young and old.  Doesn't matter.  Heck, had one just recently when we played the Dragon Heist module.  I informed the players that one law in Waterdeep is that if you kill someone, you go to jail.  Waterdeep does not have a self-defense law.  If you kill, you go to jail.  Full stop.  This exploded into a practically weekly bout of players bitching about how could a lawful city possibly have such laws.  The fact that real world countries, like the one I live in in Japan don't have allowances for killing in self defense, apparently fell on deaf ears.  Or, Canadian laws which are MUCH stricter about what constitutes self defense than American laws also apparently weren't good enough examples.  Given that Greenwood liked to base a lot of Waterdeep on Toronto, I imagine that's largely where that law comes from.So, yeah, [USER=6801845]@Oofta[/USER], bully for you for never having a problem with alignment.  For me, it's been nothing but a constant headache and I, for one, welcome it's excision from the rules.  One could only hope.</blockquote>