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01-20-1999, 09:25 AM #1Craig DalrympleGuest
vos and alignment
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From: Jim Cooper
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>How do you portray the Vos society - Lawful, or very chaotic?
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>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 ...
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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
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01-20-1999, 03:55 PM #2Kenneth GauckGuest
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
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01-20-1999, 09:10 PM #3Jim CooperGuest
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
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01-22-1999, 02:19 PM #4DKEvermore@aol.coGuest
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'?
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> Cheers,
> Darren
>
I would say, for Vos, Me comes first.
- -DKE
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