Mon, Jul. 7th, 2008, 12:01 am
The Travelling Brainleys - Part 5

Brain Comics #113
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Mon, Jul. 7th, 2008 07:11 am (UTC)
[info]stolen_tea

The Forgotten Alignment Axis rears its head once more!
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Mon, Jul. 7th, 2008 07:17 am (UTC)
[info]arjache

Oh, heck yes. I was so sad to hear they basically got rid of it in AD&D 4th edition. The chaotic axis has had a special place in my heart ever since a wee childhood version of me got a first look at an AD&D manual.
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Tue, Jul. 8th, 2008 05:03 am (UTC)
[info]stolen_tea

Some friends and I currently have a world-building project going where the dominant axis is between the lawful evil Shadow and the chaotic good Brilliance. Interesting side effects are that monks are Shadowed, Slaadi are Brilliant, and paladins are, effectively, like renegade Nazis.
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Tue, Jul. 8th, 2008 07:03 am (UTC)
[info]arjache

Hee, neat! You'd think that would shift the advantage significantly to the good, though, because evil would become so dang predictable.

Also, I think that's the first time I've heard "renegade" and "paladin" used in the same sentence.
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Tue, Jul. 8th, 2008 07:20 am (UTC)
[info]stolen_tea

It's not so much "predictable" as "organized". Chaos is as much a partner of the Brilliance as Good; they have no long term alliances, and no strong central governments. Politcally, they operate in some variety of libertarianism, anarchism, or voluntary communism; "countries" tend to be loosely feudal, or culturally defined.

Whereas the Shadow builds empires.
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Mon, Jul. 7th, 2008 11:37 am (UTC)
[info]ogw

Aren't mirror universe doppelgangers always opposites? If the one here is evil, the other one is good. Mirror Brainley should be Lawful neutral. *crosses arms*
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