Food for thought on alignments

[Neil Barnes]

On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, HSwiftfoot wrote:

> Well.....not necessarily. What about the European knights of the middle ages,
> murdering, raping and looting all those innocent muslims, moors, turks, etc,
> all in the name of God and the noble fight?

Definately evil in AD&D terms. AD&D aims towards the heroic ideal. The
alignment rules don't broke any hypocrasy.

It's not what you want to be that counts, it's how you act.

neil

[FRANKEN*RC]

> -> I guess the real question is, if the oportunity arose to murder, rape, loot
> -> from the inocent, beat the helpless, etc, without fear of punishment, would
> -> you take it? If the answer is yes, then you're evil. >>
>
> ->Well.....not necessarily. What about the European knights of the middle
> ages,
> ->murdering, raping and looting all those innocent muslims, moors, turks, etc,

> The chivarlous knights was a light imitation of the muslim/moorish
"Knights". >
> I have to say that Kevin did managed to describe the problem with alignments
> really well.
>
Chivarlous Knights can only be found in the Arthur legends.

Ronald