[dungeoncrawl] Re: Alignments
- From: Johnathan Detrick <jdetrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:01:26 -0400
For what it's worth, I went through and checked this out. Not
because I wanted to argue with Jim (honest!), but because I had not
given much thought to the disparate powers among the gods when I sent
this out originally. So I went back through. Demipowers are worth 1
point, Lesser are worth 2, Intermediate 3, and good ole' Dennis is worth
4. Here's the new totals:
LG: 8
NG: 10
CG: 11
LN: 3
N: 6
CN: 9
LE: 1
NE: 7
CE: 7
Good Neutral Evil
29 18 15
Lawful Neutral Chaotic
12 23 27
So we are still a litle chaos and good heavy.
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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