Okay, I promise, I’m almost done with my whole ponderings on alignment, but the reason it’s a compelling subject isn’t because it is something terrible that should have never been explored. It’s a problem because it’s a tool for definition that was applied for the wrong aspects of the game. It is the metaphysical equivalent of basing alignment on atomic
Read moreAfter my deep dive into alignment and what it came from, and how it got multi-purposed into D&D possibly in ways that it was never intended to work, I started thinking about one of those functions, most notably the disposition of beings that you might run into in an encounter. Way back in the shrouded days of early D&D, you
Read moreThere was an interesting post a while back that I have just recently been contemplating, about hacking Marvel Heroic Roleplaying to emulate a 4th edition style game. While reading through it, I noticed that the author mentioned not being entirely sure that the affiliation dice worked for a D&D style game but left them in. http://critical-hits.com/2012/03/26/fantasy-heroic-roleplaying-a-dd-4e-hack-for-marvel-heroic-roleplaying/ One of the strengths
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