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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5248043" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, I suspect it is more that the original system covered your relationship with the universe (well, multiverse, really, with the alignment planes and all).&nbsp; Alignment there is a thing kind of like mass or electric charge that you accrue through action.The idea here is intriguing, except for how it can run away with you.&nbsp; You've potentially got a different alignment for every kind of grouping we might make?&nbsp; They aren't all races - you can have alignment vs social classes, alignment vs different religions, vs people in particular professions, vs gender.&nbsp; It could become maddening.&nbsp; What if I have biases with respect to a race, a social class, and a religion, and they don't match?&nbsp; I'm LG with respect to Halflings, CN with respect to lower-class folks, and NE with respect to followers of the God of Pipeweed, and I see a poor halfling sitting at a Shrine of the Pipe.&nbsp; What am I to think?!?Maybe the original is too broad a brush.&nbsp; This, though, needs some definite boundaries put on it, or it risks being too nuanced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5248043, member: 177"] Well, I suspect it is more that the original system covered your relationship with the [I]universe[/I] (well, multiverse, really, with the alignment planes and all). Alignment there is a thing kind of like mass or electric charge that you accrue through action. The idea here is intriguing, except for how it can run away with you. You've potentially got a different alignment for every kind of grouping we might make? They aren't all races - you can have alignment vs social classes, alignment vs different religions, vs people in particular professions, vs gender. It could become maddening. What if I have biases with respect to a race, a social class, and a religion, and they don't match? I'm LG with respect to Halflings, CN with respect to lower-class folks, and NE with respect to followers of the God of Pipeweed, and I see a poor halfling sitting at a Shrine of the Pipe. What am I to think?!? Maybe the original is too broad a brush. This, though, needs some definite boundaries put on it, or it risks being too nuanced. [/QUOTE]

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