Malfarian
2015-08-29, 09:12 PM
Hello All,
One thing I never liked about D&D were alignments, then playing other games I missed them. There is something nice about committing to an ethical framework for your character's personality, but then the "stuck in the mold" was often quite frustrating.
I'm sure other games have done "variants" of alignment, I'm just not familiar with them, so I continue to roll around different ideas of my own. (feel free to point me towards another game).
I have been thinking that if I were to play again, I'd prefer to have a spectrum of alignments, rather than just "Lawful" or "Chaotic" etc. One I think I'd like is:
Honourable > Pragmatic > Selfish > Dishonourable
Now the "names" of each step need a lot of work and I'm not sure that honourable and pragmatic need be different perhaps instead something cycle would be better
Idealism > Pragmatism > "Selfish" > ?? > Fatalism > Idealism
Anyone have suggestions for improvement or know of a game that does this well?
One thing I never liked about D&D were alignments, then playing other games I missed them. There is something nice about committing to an ethical framework for your character's personality, but then the "stuck in the mold" was often quite frustrating.
I'm sure other games have done "variants" of alignment, I'm just not familiar with them, so I continue to roll around different ideas of my own. (feel free to point me towards another game).
I have been thinking that if I were to play again, I'd prefer to have a spectrum of alignments, rather than just "Lawful" or "Chaotic" etc. One I think I'd like is:
Honourable > Pragmatic > Selfish > Dishonourable
Now the "names" of each step need a lot of work and I'm not sure that honourable and pragmatic need be different perhaps instead something cycle would be better
Idealism > Pragmatism > "Selfish" > ?? > Fatalism > Idealism
Anyone have suggestions for improvement or know of a game that does this well?