[dungeoncrawl] Re: Alignments

    There is a point there.  I'll have to go back through and check my
figures.

jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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