Daeran Arendae and alignment math
For entirely spoilery to the last act reasons I was looking up the rules on alignment in Pathfinder Ultimate Campaign p46 https://legacy.aonprd.com/ultimateCampaign/characterBackground/backgroundGenerator.html see Conflicts, and seeing how to apply them to Daeran in Wrath of the Righteous.
On the whole I am not enamored of the mathematical approach taken to deciding how lawful or evil you are.
It seems to take Lawful Good as a default position you can fall from by doing bad things. Rather than, for instance, starting at neutrality, as it is elsewhere stated all babies and the majority of adults do. You do not have to random roll Good things to see where on a table your Good is, you just roll Conflict and set off away from Lawful Good. Theologically speaking this is A Choice.
But: Ultimate Campaign makes it possible to random roll you alignment in 3 parts, or four if you count the extra conflict point you can get by doing any of the conflicts to a child. ( Read more... )
Okay I went to look up online references and proof read what I'd written and now if I had any further conclusion I forgot it.
But having even a strange and annoying math for alignment gives you a place to start the arguments.
... I have seen so many alignment arguments on the internet. I have seen so many people arguing so and so isn't actually evil. I do not want to have those arguments.
Yet I just typed up so much alignment math.
But the interesting part is how many ways you can end up in how many parts of the alignment grid. It makes it hard to argue so and so isn't such and such when the math is this mobile.
... it makes it easy to argue alignment math is a bad tool with weird outcomes tho...
On the whole I am not enamored of the mathematical approach taken to deciding how lawful or evil you are.
It seems to take Lawful Good as a default position you can fall from by doing bad things. Rather than, for instance, starting at neutrality, as it is elsewhere stated all babies and the majority of adults do. You do not have to random roll Good things to see where on a table your Good is, you just roll Conflict and set off away from Lawful Good. Theologically speaking this is A Choice.
But: Ultimate Campaign makes it possible to random roll you alignment in 3 parts, or four if you count the extra conflict point you can get by doing any of the conflicts to a child. ( Read more... )
Okay I went to look up online references and proof read what I'd written and now if I had any further conclusion I forgot it.
But having even a strange and annoying math for alignment gives you a place to start the arguments.
... I have seen so many alignment arguments on the internet. I have seen so many people arguing so and so isn't actually evil. I do not want to have those arguments.
Yet I just typed up so much alignment math.
But the interesting part is how many ways you can end up in how many parts of the alignment grid. It makes it hard to argue so and so isn't such and such when the math is this mobile.
... it makes it easy to argue alignment math is a bad tool with weird outcomes tho...