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I am interested in the worlds people have built for the Pathfinder rules. I started making a series of videos on YouTube, and I would like to hear what people think. Thanks. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g0a7kuidS0&list=PLUAcpxkZ6_5d58A8UmDZXZ iYpZdS1OJsA&index=1
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Interesting video on alignment. I particularly like the idea of the paladin as a simple divine warrior.
The whole issue of alignment is a tricky one however. As you point out, good and evil are subjective. I think you can even find cultures where there are acceptable versions of even the "evil" acts you defined. Most RPG's particularly Pathfinder have a simplistic "heroic" moral compass based around our main cultures. Thus good, evil, law and chaos are relatively easy to grasp and fit into game mechanics.
In my own home brew I attempted to do away with good and evil, law and chaos. Deities represent ideals based around certain functions such as life and death, might and magic, nature and civilisation. Followers took these ideals and made of them what they wished, others judged these acts good or evil... As you say though, in an alignment based system there are a lot of changes to make.
The history video is also worth a watch. The whole point of history is its seen from a single perspective with a bias. History is created and preserved for a reason, often used as propaganda. Much that happens is lost to history, then reinvented as something else. Look at Stonehenge for example :)
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While I haven't created a Pathfinder world I've been doing a blog series on Worldbuilding:
http://www.5mwd.com/archives/category/fluff/world-building
When I started I was only blogging over at the WotC community site, so it has more of a 5th Edition / D&D Next slant, but I've been debating re-editing it to be a little more system neutral.
I'll have to watch your videos and see where we agree and where we differ.