(group checks meaning similar to 5e, that the entire group rolls against a DC and having at least half of them succeed counts as a success for the whole group)
I'm not exactly averse to houseruling it but if someone recalls off the top of their heads whether there's some equivalent mechanism I'd like to hear about it
One often hears the claim that animals who kill and such, are not in fact evil. The typical example is that of a lion or a tiger that kills a prey. The argument is more or less that the animal acts instinctively in order to survive and thus we cannot fault it for killing a prey. It must eat meat ...
@kviiri I assume so; it's already Goblin-Dicing the party, if you set a difficult DC you're basically setting them up for failure.
Broadly speaking 4e expects a party to have one person trained in each skill.
@DavidCoffron No, because D&D-style alignment doesn't map to any real-world philosophical constructs at all. That's part of the problem--people keep inserting their personal IRL philosophies into a game construct that wasn't designed with any IRL philosophy in mind.
So we get "obviously alignment is X" and "obviously alignment is Y" where X and Y are antithetical and neither actually fits the alignment mould anyway.
Plus the words "Good" and "Evil" bring their own connotations and baggage. Which basically turns into 1/4th of the alignment axis being off-limits for PCs if you want to minimize absolute madness.
Right. Each of us tends to bring our own concepts of good/evil/law/chaos to the table, and alignment is vague/contradictory/infuriating enough to make it seem like that's what it wants us to do.
Then the trap springs and everyone at the table notices everyone else is doing something totally different.
I really liked how 4e simplified the alignment scale. They could've taken it away completely, but I think merging some of the more vague alignments together made a lot of sense.
Meanwhile 3.5 sits there going "Not only can we quantify your goodness or evilness, each alignment axis is a universal elemental power in its own right with the capacity to sustain entire planes of existence and bestow magical powers on those who dedicate their lives to it!"
Well, many real world philosophers (and many of them really good ones) worked in China, which was effectively a fantasy realm for the Europeans of the early Middle Ages. And as a consequence, they came up with philosophies with a much lesser emphasis on Good vs Evil than their European equivalents.
@kviiri but you can analyze something from a philosophical lens (premises and conclusions) without necessitating real world application or even guaranteeing the premises are relevant to the real world
@kviiri spirit guardians damage type is based on alignment
@DavidCoffron Last I checked – and I wasn't good at it – the planar stuff, and actually most of the DMG, seemed surprisingly setting-specific, and if I knit my own setting, alignment becomes even less relephant.
For example, a paladin of Pelor starts beating beggars or orphans on a daily basis, threatening them so they don't talk about it to anybody.
How would a deity find out his worshiper is doing something wrong?
It started out as a pretty illegal construction using repurposed construction waste on a repurposed disused pier, but over the years the city administration (who weren't actively hostile towards it at any point, really) started to rent the lot to the organization officially
The sauna that was burned was built using bottle deposit money collected by volunteers. If this was a crime show, the episode would end with the cops figuring out the sauna was built out of sub-par materials and the guy in charge of the money just embezzled most of it and torched the sauna to not get caught.
...but since this is not, I blame alcohol and advanced lack of respect towards shared property :<
A bit of Fate apostasy — for a side project, I’m looking at how the Create action might be expanded in scope beyond aspects. Comments turned on on this Google doc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByUw9J7eAOL4GGGMFWSNK5NzP2GSujblDDzaxsQ-XQ0/edit?usp=sharing
An African elephant being loaded onto a ship, 3rd-4th century CE.
Roman mosaic from Veii, Isola Farnese, Italy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/18643674732 Now in Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany #archaeology
This question seems to be asking about divination magic, and feats, in D&D 5e, but the answers are focused on feats rather than Divination Magic school abilities. I don't have the time or assets to compose an answer. Anyone?
@SPavel hungry isn't an alignment. (lion not evil question) Attributing human morality and values to a creature without the higher brain functions is a non sequitur.
For example, a paladin of Pelor starts beating beggars or orphans on a daily basis, threatening them so they don't talk about it to anybody.
How would a deity find out his worshiper is doing something wrong?
