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  1. #1
    Craig Dalrymple
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    vos and alignment

    - ----- Original Message -----
    From: Jim Cooper

    >
    >How do you portray the Vos society - Lawful, or very chaotic?
    >
    >I'm having a problem in that, while I can see that the Vos culture
    >supports a very chaotic view, aren't they supposed to follow a rigid
    >code of honor and such? Wouldn't following this code of honor, then,
    >make the Vos lawful? To the outsider, of course, Vos are seen as only
    >one tiny step up from goblins and orogs (and this is debatable) - yet
    >there is this code thingy. How do all you DMs out there present this?
    >I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around this one ...
    >

    I have found that it is very difficult from the DM's perspective to apply
    just one alignment blandly over a whole nation to categorize it. There
    are a hundred people out there who have devised other alignment
    systems to better remedy this situation, but I try to KISS.

    I only use one alignment to describle anything. Lawful, Neutral, Chaotic,
    Good, or Evil. I should say "one worded alignments". In my view, the Vos
    are very Lawful. They have a strict code of honor and if you violate that
    code, you will pay dearly. This is a very lawful response.

    A truely chaotic person in the Vos lands would either die or be hunted.
    They could not maintain a strict code of Vos honor.

    Now this is a very biased and one sided view of things because even
    Chaotic Good Rangers have a code of honor.

    The largest thing to keep in mind is that all characters are driven by
    one axiom of alignment to a larger degree (or perhaps two), but
    have a part of them all inside.

    I treat alignment like genetics. :)

    Hope this helps.

    Craig

  2. #2
    Kenneth Gauck
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    vos and alignment

    >Now this is a very biased and one sided view of things because even
    >Chaotic Good Rangers have a code of honor.


    There is a difference between a person code of honor and a socially
    instilled one. Every person has their own pattern of behavior (unless
    mentally ill, perhaps) , it is conforming to the social standard of behavior
    and putting the group above the individual which tends more towards
    lawfulness.

    In other alignment news, January's Atlantic Magazine has a very good article
    on Evil.

    Kenneth Gauck
    c558382@earthlink.net

  3. #3
    Jim Cooper
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    vos and alignment

    Kenneth Gauck wrote:
    >There is a difference between a person code of honor and a socially
    > instilled one. Every person has their own pattern of behavior (unless
    > mentally ill, perhaps) , it is conforming to the social standard of behavior and putting the group above the individual which tends more towards lawfulness.<

    True ... so, are Vos selfish or are they more clan orientated like the
    Rjurik? Which comes first (in a moral sense) to the average Vos dude,
    'me' or 'my clan'?

    Cheers,
    Darren

  4. #4
    DKEvermore@aol.co
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    vos and alignment

    In a message dated 1/20/99 3:11:41 PM Central Standard Time,
    Jim_Cooper@bc.sympatico.ca writes:

    > True ... so, are Vos selfish or are they more clan orientated like the
    > Rjurik? Which comes first (in a moral sense) to the average Vos dude,
    > 'me' or 'my clan'?
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Darren
    >
    I would say, for Vos, Me comes first.

    - -DKE

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