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I'm not really seeing runes adding anything here. Are you suggesting tagging NPCs with their biggest virtue and/or sin...? There aren't nine of each of those in the setting, just seven. (The Thassilonians didn't really respect Divination very much, and "universal" isn't a school with an associated rune/sin/virtue.) And there are twenty aeon stones, not counting dull grey.
I'd suggest this as a solid basis for a Thaumaturge character (with their nine potential implements and the class working well with obscure or even inaccurate connections and patterns), but I don't think that it fills in for alignment.
There were nine sins and virtues? That's a couple more than I remember...
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This sounds like something that would be better in Homebrew.
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There is nothing wrong with Homebrew. The idea is reasonable. But it isn't something that exists in the current rules, and it isn't something that the rules are likely to be changed to. So the rules forum really isn't the place for it.
So use the First Rule. You don't need to convince the Paizo development team that your idea is good. Or the entire internet - or at least the subset of them that are on these forums.
You just need to convince the people that you play with. So if you run your ideas by people who are on the Homebrew subforum here, you can get better advice and suggestions for how to implement and balance your idea so that it works well.
Here on the rules subforum all you are likely to get are people saying that this isn't how the rules run, it isn't likely to be implemented, and they wouldn't run the game that way. Which isn't what you are looking for.
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Look, you're posting a bunch of suggestions, but you're doing it in the section for discussing existing rules. (Presumably because you saw somebody else make the same mistake; that's entirely understandable for somebody new to the forums.) If you post it in the section for people discussing existing rules, you will get people showing up to discuss why this wouldn't fit with existing rules.
If you post it in homebrew, you'll get more people coming to discuss its merits as a hypothetical rule.
If you post it as something you want to persuade Paizo to adopt, well... you're going to get everybody's opinion on whether or not Paizo should adopt it.
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let's try to avoid that in the future. yes?
Yes. I spend a great deal of effort trying to avoid misunderstandings. Sometimes it even works.
Another bit of information about these forums is that people often don't duplicate information. So if one person says something and 30 people agree with it, those 30 people are not always going to jump in just to say that they agree. If they jump in to the conversation, it will be to add something that hasn't already been said. Even if that ends up being only one sentence.
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I've removed several posts that don't belong on our message boards (or branches from said messages) and moved this discussion to the Homebrew and House Rules forum.
As always, follow the Golden Rule and Be Awesome to One Another and read the Community Guidelines if you have questions about what is allowed.
Good Gaming!
-Jim
Having just seen this in the Homebrew forum... I think it's a neat idea. If you packaged it up into a 1-pager and made it easy to digest, I think it'd be a fun little thing.
I'm not sure about the nitty gritty like the numbers of each thing, and how it's supposed to translate to and from alignment precisely, but it seems like you have a decent idea.