On 17-Jun-98, Aleksei Andrievski (solmyr@kolumbus.fi) wrote about Re:
[BIRTHRIGHT] - Palidin Reconquista...:
- ->I really think that a DM shouldn't let alignments interfere with politics
- ->too much. That's the whole point of BR, it makes it different from your
- ->basic good-vs-evil scheme. Granted, a paladin may have to watch his actions,
- ->but consider this: when humans first came to Cerilia, they kicked the elves'
- ->butt. Their ranks probably included a good number of good priests and even
- ->paladins, yet Haelyn and the gang had absolutely no problem with that...
Haelyn didn't care as he was one of those elf murderers. I can agree that you
have to overlook the alignment from time to time. But the paladin class is
quite powerful and has alot of benefits (that you can't disagree about) and
one of those limits which makes it possible for an paladin to have all those
great benefits is the strict alignment code.
If you don't think that the most important limitation can be overlooked, then
why not do that for all the classes, what about a mage who is allowed to use
armor and cast spells at the same time and use swords and polearms without any
TACH0 penelties, magicians who can use spells from all schools and cast realm
magic, bards who gets regency from owning source holdings, priests able to use
weapons banned for his religion, fighter using magic and so on.


//Trizt of Ward^RITE

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