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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philosopher" data-source="post: 5249099" data-attributes="member: 76803">But given that I (as the player) am the subject making the decisions about how the character acts based on alignment, there shouldn't be any problem with subjectivity in the description.After all, I've given fairly in-depth descriptions of my characters' personalities to my groups, and some of them have occasionally said that how the character behaves is inconsistent with what I've said before. I explain why I did what I did, and we quickly discover that each of us interpreted the personality traits differently. My interpretation is what wins out, of course (this has rarely ever disrupted play, it has just raises interesting points of discussion), because it's my character.   No, Jasper knew he was being nasty to the non-halflings. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I just took the PHB's description of Good and Evil at face value (even though I find it, as a professional philosopher who has taught moral theory, very unsophisticated). Good involves altruism. Evil involves hurting people. Jasper was consciously altruistic towards halflings and consciously tried to hurt non-halflings.But, given what you said, I can at least now see why you considered it complicated. Oh, absolutely!  Thank you! I appreciate your contribution to it.</blockquote>

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