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[Flying Dice]

I think that the ambiguity of the alignments would be a good theme to build a campaign around; and the idea that they are created by belief and thus inconsistent.


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Perhaps there could be a prestige class or feat tree allowing characters to become enlightened as to the constructed nature of alignments and thus be able to first ignore them and later to be treated as whatever alignment would be most beneficial to them at the time.

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Verily! So much for all that!

A component of that first bit should be part of any good campaign anyways. But it's definitely an interesting idea, to directly tackle alignment (and the fact that things like Lawful and Evil are tangible realities rather than philosophical distinctions) as a construct of belief; a person from one culture could ping a person as Chaotic Evil where another would read them as Neutral Good purely because of differences in upbringing and social norms. Fantasy is almost always more interesting when it carries a good helping of reality in its guts.

Imagine that, a campaign where you could draw a line on a map where something is treated as "Evil" or "Good" in the sense of the metaphysics of the game purely based on where they are.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, for a real life example, take cannibalism. Pretty much universally reviled and shunned in modern day times, yet among certain cultures and religious beliefs in the past it was considered normal and acceptable behavior.

[Mephisto]

Those of you into conventions and stuff, one of the largest gaming conventions may not be held in my city any more if our imbecile of a governor gets his way.

Many sads were had.

[Flying Dice]

Hey, maybe they'll move it down here to Louisville. Oh, wait.

[Bohandas]

I think that the ambiguity of the alignments would be a good theme to build a campaign around; and the idea that they are created by belief and thus inconsistent.


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Perhaps there could be a prestige class or feat tree allowing characters to become enlightened as to the constructed nature of alignments and thus be able to first ignore them and later to be treated as whatever alignment would be most beneficial to them at the time.

EDIT:
Verily! So much for all that!

A component of that first bit should be part of any good campaign anyways. But it's definitely an interesting idea, to directly tackle alignment (and the fact that things like Lawful and Evil are tangible realities rather than philosophical distinctions) as a construct of belief; a person from one culture could ping a person as Chaotic Evil where another would read them as Neutral Good purely because of differences in upbringing and social norms. Fantasy is almost always more interesting when it carries a good helping of reality in its guts.

Imagine that, a campaign where you could draw a line on a map where something is treated as "Evil" or "Good" in the sense of the metaphysics of the game purely based on where they are.

I was thinking a little bit less pronounced than that. More along the lines of members of the Bleak Cabal being able to ignore alignment or members of the Mind[s Eye or Sign of One being able to mimic it.

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or initiates in certain less reputable mysteries of the Greek panthe0n

[Tack]

Cool stuff.

Spoiler: WARHAMMER PAINTING WHATCHEMER (click to show/hide)

FINISHED MY RAPTORS.


YAY PRETTY.

NOW I'M ON TO THREE DIFFERENT "THIS SUCKS I HATE THIS SCREW PAINTING" PROJECTS.

1. The REPETITIVE THING - 3 squads of tempestus guardsmen. They are just complex enough that I can't actually slack off.
2. The OVERLY DETAILED THING - Headless Ahriman. The model cost me $40, so I kinda need to take my time on it and make the crap look good.
3. The BIG THING- My tank - AKA "Rhino". Probably the most fun thing, despite all the paint that's gonna get thrown all over that massive flat exterior. Plus, I'm inevitably gonna want to get flashy. Which will be Effort. Screw Effort.

Once again forgotten how to resize these.

[Delta Foxtrot]

That finished Tempestus looks awesome, keep up the work! And is that snow on the raptor bases? Nice touch. Cool stuff indeed.

[scriver]

All the images are broken to me :C

[Tack]

Darn, sorry Scriver. They're through tinypic (puush is broken), so maybe if you've got that blocked or sommat?

Also cheers DF, I drink your praise like kool aid.

[penguinofhonor]

grisha5

[Loud Whispers]

grisha5 live in thred

[Sergius]

Ok, according to this interview, they've already started doing some playtesting for the next version of D&D. They're naming it D&D Tomorrow (we can just call it 6th edition I suppose), and it will feature a new system of buffs that will be based on the concept of Freemium (you can spend money on the WotC score and get special cards that you then show to your DM for additional powers). They've already planned several expansions, a.k.a. Dungeon Lore Contributions (DLC).


Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson answer questions about the new D&D

[Baffler]

Oh, I see. You're a tricky one...

[Tawa]

You didn't notice the thread author?

[Arx]

Ok, according to this interview, they've already started doing some playtesting for the next version of D&D. They're naming it D&D Tomorrow (we can just call it 6th edition I suppose), and it will feature a new system of buffs that will be based on the concept of Freemium (you can spend money on the WotC score and get special cards that you then show to your DM for additional powers). They've already planned several expansions, a.k.a. Dungeon Lore Contributions (DLC).


Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson answer questions about the new D&D

Damn, didn't expect WotC to cave like that. Seems pretty impractical, too. Oh well. Yes, I know it's a joke.