[dungeoncrawl] Re: Alignments

One good point is that the few lawful 
gods tend to be powerful, while the 
multitudinous chaotic gods tend to be 
lesser or demipowers -

> 
>     As we all know, I'm not the 
biggest fan of alignments out there.  No
> character adheres to one alignment, 
because no person does.  Sure, we
> all have tendencies, but everybody 
moves up and down the alignment
> scale, sometimes being more good than 
evil, sometimes more chaotic than
> lawful.  The problem with alignment 
is that I fear it restrains good
> role-playing, forcing players to have 
their characters act a certain way
> to avoid an alignment shift.  And 
sometimes it's a role-playing crutch,
> where a player just has their 
character act lawful good, rather than
> trying to figure out what they would 
really do under the circumstances.
>     All of that being said, I would 
like to try and get as wide a range
> of alignments as possible for the 
deities.  Having all of them cluster
> around one end of the spectrum tends 
to make the world rather lopsided.
> As one of the articles that Shawn 
Barrick sent us stated, if you have
> twice as many good deities as evil 
deities, why are there any evil
> deities left.  While I don't propose 
we try and make all alignments
> equal, and I certainly don't want to 
see us stuffing characters into
> alignments that don't fit them, I 
think it behooves us to see where we
> might be able to shift alignments in 
a way that don't compromise the
> basic personality of the character in 
question.
>     So you can see where I am coming 
from, here's a list of the
> alignments we currently have, based 
on a rough approximation of the
> deities we have been discussing.
> 
> LG:  3
> NG: 3
> CG: 6
> LN: 1
> N: 2
> CN: 3
> LE: 1
> NE: 3
> CE: 3
> 
> Good         Neutral        Evil
>    12               6               7
> 
> Lawful        Neutral        Chaotic
>     5                 
8                 12
> 
>     The disparity between good and 
evil doesn't worry me nearly as much
> as the chaotic nature of the world.  
I'd like to see a little more law
> in the world.  Just my opinion.
> 
> 
>

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