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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLXC" data-source="post: 219973" data-attributes="member: 2663">Kengar, nice post.  Yes alignments are not absolute.  That's why I argue that Good is in the Actions, not the character.  You may THINK you are a good person, but if you do nothing about bad things all the time, it's just your THINKING not reality.Also, remember this IS A world different than our own.  Good and Evil DO show up in alignment spells, and have actual physical and spiritual forces for them.  Do not dismiss the idea that someone CAN know if someone else is good by looking into them with magic.  That's what it's for.  Yes in Real Life alignment is silly, luckily this is NOT real life.  I CAN Detect Evil on the Kobolds and Know that my God is telling me that they are Evil if I am a Paladin.  I can create a Ward of Magic that only targets EVIL or GOOD and guess what... they work.  This means something.  Some of us in this world hate the concept of alignments because it is too limiting.  That's fine.  Some of us LIKE the concept of alignments in an imaginary game, like me for example.Being Good is all about what you do.  Being a HERO is culturally defined.  There is a difference I know.</blockquote>