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<LI><em>From</em>: Adam Wiggins <<A HREF="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:08:57 -0700 (MST)</LI>
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[Jeff K:]
> The one thing alignment DOES do in the AD&D system is serve as a rather
> brute force balancing agent. If you are going to allow evil PCs (as our
> OLRPG does) then alignment becomes an issue because the strongest character
> types in the game are NOT evil types. I consider this necessary to keep
> the world from disintegrating as well as to overcome the basic advantage
> ruthlessness has...
Hmmm. What basic advantage does ruthlessness have? In my experience
behaving in a basically 'evil' manner tends to accumulate you many
enemies and no friends, while being 'good' gets you the opposite.
It seems to me that this gives someone who is 'good' (== makes lots
of friends) a severe advantage, since he/she always has strength of
numbers and friends to help him/her out?
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00723" HREF="msg00723.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alignment</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00716" HREF="msg00716.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alignment</A></strong>,
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Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Mon 25 Aug 1997, 03:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00734" HREF="msg00734.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alignment</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Tue 26 Aug 1997, 05:24 GMT
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clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 28 Aug 1997, 20:36 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00816" HREF="msg00816.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alignment</A></strong>,
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