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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 9093852" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>Unfortunately, the majority of people took that to mean that alignment could - and SHOULD - therefore never, EVER be a reliable thing. Any <strong><em>assumption</em></strong> that any renowned vile, EVIL monster was actually worthy of death meant that your character committed the crime of not first verifying beyond a doubt that the LIKELYHOOD was actually FACT. DM's seemed to love that. They placed normally evil creatures in front of PC's, but the creatures were now the <em>routinely</em>-found "exceptions". The DM would give no clues, or signs, or warnings that the "known-to-be-evil" monsters WASN'T actually evil, so the PC's would just kill them. Then the DM would smack all the PC's with the alignment-violation hammer and nobody would enjoy it.</p><p></p><p>Rather than giving good advice to a DM that they needed to be careful when they created any "exception" monsters, because they <em>weren't</em> a good idea to use as a impossible-to-suspect trap, they only CREATED a bigger problem by undermining one of the core uses for alignment in the first place - to KNOW how a monster was going to behave in terms of morals and ethics. It was a paladin-alignment trap that was opened up to be freely inflicted upon all PC's. It was stupid game design that made everything worse, except for those few DM's who understood better than the designers and said, "That is NOT how it works in my game."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 9093852, member: 32740"] Unfortunately, the majority of people took that to mean that alignment could - and SHOULD - therefore never, EVER be a reliable thing. Any [B][I]assumption[/I][/B] that any renowned vile, EVIL monster was actually worthy of death meant that your character committed the crime of not first verifying beyond a doubt that the LIKELYHOOD was actually FACT. DM's seemed to love that. They placed normally evil creatures in front of PC's, but the creatures were now the [I]routinely[/I]-found "exceptions". The DM would give no clues, or signs, or warnings that the "known-to-be-evil" monsters WASN'T actually evil, so the PC's would just kill them. Then the DM would smack all the PC's with the alignment-violation hammer and nobody would enjoy it. Rather than giving good advice to a DM that they needed to be careful when they created any "exception" monsters, because they [I]weren't[/I] a good idea to use as a impossible-to-suspect trap, they only CREATED a bigger problem by undermining one of the core uses for alignment in the first place - to KNOW how a monster was going to behave in terms of morals and ethics. It was a paladin-alignment trap that was opened up to be freely inflicted upon all PC's. It was stupid game design that made everything worse, except for those few DM's who understood better than the designers and said, "That is NOT how it works in my game." [/QUOTE]
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