[dungeoncrawl] Re: Alignments
- From: jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:02:04 US/Eastern
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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