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Subj : Re: 3rd Edition, part 1
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From : krynhoth@druidic.net
Date : Thu Sep 07 2000 11:09 am

From: Jason Tamez <krynhoth@druidic.net>
Subject: Re: 3rd Edition, part 1



At 04:16 PM 9/7/00 -0500, Michelle wrote:
> > If a barbarian becomes lawful, he loses the ability to Rage and cannot gain
> > levels.
>
>This is dumb.  I can maybe see loosing the ability to Rage, but
>Barbarian cultures have their own "laws" in the form of traditions and
>cultural taboos, and a lawful mind set should be perfectly possible to a
>barbarian character.

In D&D terms, "lawful" implies honor, trustworthiness, obedience to 
authority, reliability, and sometimes close-mindedness, judgmentalness, 
rigid adherence to tradition, and lack of adaptability. The barbarian's 
reckless berserker rage is pretty much at odds with this, in my opinion.

I just paged through the alignment section, and it's toned down somewhat. 
They still discourage you from playing "evil" but they make it clear that 
alignment's not a straightjacket. They give examples like a lawful good 
character with a greedy streak that sometimes makes him take or hoard 
things even when it's not the lawful good thing to do. Alignment is mostly 
your general tendency as a person, and not an absolute thing.

-- Jason


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