Re: Willy Wonka's Alignment?

"JB" <JB70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Robert Singers" <rsingers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Brandon Cope startled all and sundry by ejaculating the following
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> > > > You'll just have to change his personality until it cleanly fits
> one
> > > > of your nine options you have.
> > >
> > > Or he\you could just understand the alignment system and not make
> > incorrect
> > > assumptions.
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> >
> > See the thing is when I look at the alignments as written in the books
> (2E
> > and 3E) I actually quite like the ideas in theory.
> > Yet when I try to apply alignments to any real or fictional person I
> find
> > they rarely fit, and they seldom work much better when applied to well
> > developed D&D characters who actually have a deep and well thought out
> > personality.
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> If you find that it's because you aren't using them properly.
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Oh and you know that do you.
I've been playing D&D for 20 years and DMing for 10 of those with various
groups of players and I have rarely been satisfied with the way alignments
play out including many of my own NPCs and PCs.
People I've played with have had varying opinons of alignment from much
more
positive than mine thru to even more negative.

That said I do find alignment usefull as game mechanic, and it is a good
starting point for inexperienced players and undeveloped characters, but I
think that as a character becomes more developed (which with thourough
creation can be from the start) it looses it's relevance beyond it's role
as
a game mechanic.