Has your DM ever penalized your character with no XP for acting against your alignment?
I started playing RPGs with AD&D, but even though it's always been in the rules, I've never had a DM actually enforce alignment-breaking behavior. Is there even a point to having the rule besides serving to prop up the alignment system itself?
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Yeah, ironically enough for being too nice.
No, I don't play games where the DM can arbitrarily award or take XP away, you get XP for gold and defeating monsters. That's it.
You know the DM can arbitrarily take gold away from a treasure hoard?
That penalizes the whole party
So what? Collective punishment is not illegal. Your table is not party to the Geneva Conventions or the International Court of Law.
Good way to lose all your players dipshit
you speak like an insufferable person to be around
So you don't play any game that involves a GM?
The rule in AD&D isn't to massively penalize you for acting against your alignment. Anyone* can act against their alignment occasionally. Even Vecna fed a stray dog. You get b***h slapped in the XP when you do a large enough deed, or commit enough deeds, which are against your alignment, that you actually CHANGE alignment entirely. Unless there's some scenario-specific rule in play, that's the only significant time you lose XP, and it's because you took actions that make you deserve it through your own damn choices.
*Paladins are their own thing and don't apply to the conversation, because they have their own unique rules on dealing with alignment
The rule makes sense when you understand that OD&D and early AD&D were designed for massively multiplayer, competitive faction play.
Penalizing a character for going against their alignment prevents "moles" -- players loyal to one faction in the campaign's meta who create characters that ostensibly belong to the opposite alignment but then subvert it or defect to the other side when convenient.
Never heard of that
That's moronic. Gary's parties included Lawful Good characters playing along with the Evil onces.
I don't call, wasn't Robilar always evil?
Imagine playing games with mechanics as shitty as alignments in 2020+.
>Has your DM ever penalized your character with no XP for acting against your alignment?
"Good" alignment characters should be penalized for refusing to rape.
Good God no, my character has a personality and the DM can categorize it however he wants. I don't respect psychology and to make his life easier I play classes where alignment doesn't matter.
It's either never actually enforce alignment breaking behavior or drooling moron false using it
>be me
>Chaotic goood alignment character
>playing with a bunch of supposedly "neutral" and "Good" party character
>they intent to use a village full of innocent people to bait the bbeg
>say i can't do that since it would endanger innocent and children that got nothing to do with it
>DM go "wtf? If you want to play by some sort of code be a lawful character not chaotic"
>give me breaking alignment penalty
5e tables are a dime a dozen btw
5e doesn't have a mechanic that punish the player for breaking their alignment
What game does? It sounds like a power trip thing
previous edition d&d and generally older system that have alignment base. It's was made to punish fricker that play "good" character but go around backstabbing and killing people. But most of the time it do lead to power tripping from morons
Which specific older editions? Be precise
AD&D like op said for example the paladin getting penalty for not being lawful
What edition of AD&D numbnuts
It says so in AD&D 1E and may be and optional rule in AD&D 2E
This post sounds like it was written by the nogames anon trying to catch someone being a nogames lol
Fantasy Trip (Proto-GURPS) encourages you to punish your players with negative XP if they break character.
>DnD problems thread
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Based anon being absolutely obsessed with d&d