tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post7768076955012248694..comments2024-03-25T22:48:31.750-04:00Comments on Dreams in the Lich House: Alignment Doesn't Need YouJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-47356357880117166682021-01-12T23:51:21.878-05:002021-01-12T23:51:21.878-05:00The concept, yes. The implementation, no. The concept, yes. The implementation, no. Pity Crithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888455956188882829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-54729823025308038292021-01-10T00:25:58.242-05:002021-01-10T00:25:58.242-05:00Wow.
Regardless, alignment comes from the fiction ...Wow.<br />Regardless, alignment comes from the fiction of Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock.W*E*R*D*N*Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596897892339816269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-66794360159012247732020-07-14T01:10:49.760-04:002020-07-14T01:10:49.760-04:00I feel like only Planescape really delved into the...I feel like only Planescape really delved into the logical ramifications of making alignment part of a setting's cosmology. In other D&D settings alignment is supposed to be integral to the functioning of reality, but only functions at a surface level. And in all those other settings alignment starts to break apart under the real world knowledge and assumptions that the players bring to the table. Alignment as we have it today is built up as a huge deal, but rarely lives up to its own hype. I figure alignment has to go big or go home, and I'd like to see it become setting-dependent.TPmanWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08415910295872695542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-36270471697059775652020-07-09T03:06:39.202-04:002020-07-09T03:06:39.202-04:00im doing oposite on alignment - you can increase i...im doing oposite on alignment - you can increase it with gifts and oaths till you become a complte jerk and risk tpk's over moral issuesKonsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-18122268924574805572020-07-07T16:29:03.288-04:002020-07-07T16:29:03.288-04:00Been thinking about alignment a fair bit lately so...Been thinking about alignment a fair bit lately so def looking forward to next post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08066229763792272197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-47996526516402477112020-07-07T09:25:47.152-04:002020-07-07T09:25:47.152-04:00Moral absolutism has fared poorly in the biome of ...Moral absolutism has fared poorly in the biome of teenagers' imaginations and also more generally in western culture. Maybe it's time to leave behind a philosophy designed by a dead reactionary, libertarian christian who once expressed that massacring Native American children might be a lawful good act under his fictional philosophical system.Pity Crithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888455956188882829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-55585615404697586122020-07-07T05:57:38.387-04:002020-07-07T05:57:38.387-04:00Alignment can just be the way the Wizards of the C...Alignment can just be the way the Wizards of the Conclave explain the world. The Church of the Burning Sphere regard that as wixked blasphemy & speak of only enlightenment & ignorance, with ignorance the perpetual state which need be acknowledged to bring enlightenment... The Oards speak of only law & chaos, the enemy of Entropy which must be eliminated if they are ever to rule eternal... Reasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761229490262589438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353391426294254427.post-27241642610821931022020-07-06T10:33:22.824-04:002020-07-06T10:33:22.824-04:00Hi, John! This is one of those areas where, as you...Hi, John! This is one of those areas where, as you say, pretty much every other role-playing game has not followed D&D. There are good reasons for that.<br /><br />The D&D multiverse *seems* to have alignment baked into it, but I think it is possible to reverse the rationale. We can say that it's not that the multiverse reflects a cosmic balance of alignment. Instead, alignment is an attempt to describe, in human terms, the distribution of factions across the planes, each of which tends toward different motivations. In other words, alignment is a human (humanoid) convention to describe tendencies, like political parties, and is not a cosmic reality.<br /><br />Or we can just ditch alignment as an objective game reality along with everybody else. The multiverse map may be an in-game human-centric point of view to give order to a messy multiverse rather than the actual (two-dimensional) cosmic arrangement. D&D works just as well without alignment. Factions and motivations don't need alignment. The next edition of D&D could make it more explicitly into an optional rule and everything would be fine.Tom Van Winklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00498476328377801884noreply@blogger.com