Alignment

[Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt#4cs,com>]

Hello,

Usual alignment values in most of theMUDs and back in D&D are located in
two planes - one from good to evil, and the other from lawful to
chaotic. I've tried to put some sense on both, and now I have a
question.

OK, I can see the meaning of G-E plane - it's obvious that good entities
can' use the evil ones without a penalty and vice versa, so it makes a
sense. But, what other application of L-C plane except for paladines
which have to be LG to be paladines at all? Even if I extend this
requirement to, say, explicitly requiring some kind of L-C alignment to
be able to do something, it seems artificial enough to wonder if there's
anything wrong.

If I modify the definition and say that L means 'entity which follows
some sort of a code', it becomes more understandable, but the problem
here is that it's difficult to strictly determine 'the Code' from
implementation point of view - well, I can say that 'doing _this_ action
to _this_ object breaks _this_ code, but it's not elegant, I believe.

Any suggestions?

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