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Anyone else feel the alignment system as it stands is almost a complete waste? I've recently (within the past year) started playing in some nWoD games and the Morality/Humanity/What-Have-You systems are so good. The alignment system is.... not. How do you really play a NG character? It either comes out as being LG or CE most of the time. I think some serious changes to the alignment system are in order. Or am I totally off the reservation with this one? I mean, the Morality system just brings in more deep and meaningful RP'ing. It's what the system was designed to do.

Edit: This is not meant to start a flamewar. I am simply disappointed with the alignment system and would like some other opinions as to why or why not the alignment system works for you.

So, let's hear some interesting character concepts that go against convention. I'll start off.

I played a human Paladin named Shiloh Moonshade. After accidentally drowning his sister and carrying her dead, waterlogged body back home from the lake 3 miles away, his parents blamed him for her death. Not being able to cope with the guilt, Shiloh left his small home and immersed himself in religion, deciding to try and do as much good as he can to cleanse the wrong he'd done.

However, this guilt was further magnified by the severe night terrors he had, of a seaweed covered girl crawling out of the lake and pointing an accusatory finger at the "righteous" man. 'Why did you let me die? she would cry out.

He awakes every night soaked in sweat, his heart racing. Never again has he been able to go near a body of water larger than a tub.

Hence, a Paladin with a phobia of water.

What are some of your interesting twists on classic race/class issues?

This is kind of a riff on the thread "Favorite Class." I was thinking about which class I most often play and realized that, while my "preferred class" tends to include a couple of choices, I almost always, without exception, play as an elf. I don't really know why. I think it's because of the alien-ness of them. They seem the most removed from standard society to me (barring the truly removed such as illithids and such). So, post your favorite race and why.