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[griffinpup]

Hey.  I'm a noob, and i'd totally like to try out your pen and paper.  If you have even a little portion for me to try, it would be great.

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[MaximumZero]

Okay, I'm going to put this in the OP:

I am currently not beta-testing, and I will let you guys know when I am.

Also, I was reading a thread about the screwed up D&D Alignment system, and I was thinking about redefining mine to "Morality". Morality would be "High" (This character is generally altruistic and benevolent, and keep selfishness to a minimum, and they work to better the lives of the people around them,) "Moderate" (This character is balanced between benevolence and selfishness, or strives for asceticism,) and "Low" (This person is generally selfish, greedy and decadent, working only to better themselves.)

What do you guys think?

[Fishbreath]

My homebrew system retains a lot of joke elements (since it was born of a joke), and the alignment system is really only a vessel to score points against D&D, but it also got a lot of praise from my players. Rather than go vague, I actually added two axes, and ended up with what the players said was a pretty good way to describe a personality:

• Flexible/Strict: whether a character will break from his alignment for expedience.
• Honorable/Dishonorable: a character's degree of adherence to an internal set of rules of behavior.
• Good/Evil: basically selfish/unselfish.
• Lawful/Chaotic: a character's degree of adherence to external sets of rules.

[ed boy]

• Flexible/Strict: whether a character will break from his alignment for expedience.
• Honorable/Dishonorable: a character's degree of adherence to an internal set of rules of behavior.
• Good/Evil: basically selfish/unselfish.
• Lawful/Chaotic: a character's degree of adherence to external sets of rules.

That's pretty good, but one aspect which could really augment it is whether a character is a big-thinker or a little-detailer. A big thinker tries to plan long-term and considers the end results more important than the methods, but risks falling out of touch with reality or doing something wrong because they think it'll help in the long run. A little-detailer does what is optimal in each situation, and is flexible to different problems, and adapts the goals based on what is attainable, but risks not having any lasting effect or being sidetracked from overall goals.

[MaximumZero]

Honestly, those are all details that should be hashed out through in-game character growth. Aside from that, all of those aspects are motile (they change slowly, but they do change) in a real person, and behavior modeling of characters is no different.

[chaoticag]

Is the alignment going to have an in-game effect? As in, are there going to be spells that target a certain morality, affect certain moralities, and so on and so forth? If yes, then maybe you should have a morality system.

If there isn't an in-game effect then don't bother with morality. It just straight jackets gameplay into something without much flexibility, no matter how often you point out that it shouldn't, and doesn't and wouldn't. People are just like that, unfortunately.

[MaximumZero]

Yes, there are alignment effects. There are spells, curses and blessings, God/Favor bonuses, Noble/Favor bonuses, and military bonuses. They aren't super-dramatic, but they're enough to shift the momentum of a game.

[Darvi]

Facepunch RPG: only game with a four dimensional alignment grid.

[MaximumZero]

Facepunch RPG: only game with a four dimensional alignment grid.

Down, Forward, DownForward and SHORYUKEN!

[Tsuchigumo550]

Dropping in to say I'm still watching and still interested.

[MaximumZero]

Very cool. Much appreciated.

I'm working on a side project right now that, hopefully, will spread across B12 like a weird meme. It is tangentially related to my main project here. I'll keep you all posted.

[Darvi]

Does it involve your fist?

[FuzzyZergling]

How weird are we talking here?
Penguin weird, or !!SCIENCE!! weird? Maybe Kamina Glasses weird? Or perhaps even Double Down weird?

[MaximumZero]

No, it does not directly involve either of my fists.

And...it's the rules for a "new" forum game. I just hope it takes off and other people decide to run it, that's all.

[Kamin]

Well in THAT case... PTW.