More importantly from a business side, it is claiming the products you are currently trying to sell people are so mediocre that they could be exceeded by randomly generated materials. He name dropped actual games his company wants the public to buy. Beyond stupid.
More of what I mean is, do we ever get "If there is too much "Good" it will cause multiversal calamity." as an actual in the game belief or mechanical truth or is it simply the case that we the audience assume that must be the case?
Basically this is my central point. Mordy's "Uphold the Balance" viewpoint would require him to not only abide by the existence of evil, which can be a reasonable, rational reaction to free will, but to be willing to aid evil in the world. Mordenkainan for example would believe that the universe...
All that said, some good points here and some people who just wanted to argue about the alignment system and not the actual point put forward with the OP. Thanks for your time tonight.
The alignment system doesn't care what the individual considers themselves or really too much about their motives, just their actions. Ravenloft did a good job of illustrating this. Several Darklords view themselves as justified or even virtuous. All are Evil in the statline.
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Sorry. This is topic drift. I'm not arguing over if the system has merit. That's an individual opinion of what works for the games you want to run or play in. I am saying that Mordenkeinan isn't "True Neutral." He's Neutral Evil. Anyone who is Militant Neutral in D&D is.
Moral relativism is how Neutral is described in I think from 3rd ed onward. Which makes sense overall. Its why most people in DnD are neutral now. But thats not militant neutral, which by ethos, is just as likely to enslave people as it is to liberate them purely to keep the numbers balanced.