Honor replacing alignment? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Honor replacing alignment? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Jedi_Councilman
09-12-05, 08:31 PM I'm planning a campaign where it might be more appropriate for me to eliminate alignment and replace it with the system for Honor in UA. I was wondering if anyone else has done that, and if so how it worked. Also I was curious what to do for starting Honor (in the mechanical system) when not using alignment. I was thinking of using random roll with modifiers derived from character background, and allowing players to choose to start with 0 if they want.
Aurotuli
09-12-05, 09:10 PM I'm not going to be able to help on this one. I replaced AL with Sanctity (deities [regardless of AL] / celestials [again, regardless]) / Taint (fiends, aberrations).

You might try the OA board, as honor (and Taint, for that matter) is a major part of the setting. Likely some of them have used the UA rules for it. I don't know how the UA rules compare with the OA rules, but they are likely similar.
weasel fierce
09-13-05, 01:42 AM I havent read the UA system, but replacing alignment with an honour kind of thing, would make a lot of sense in, say, a game based around knights and such (ala Pendragon)
IceFractal
09-13-05, 02:32 AM It could work pretty easily. You'd just need to replace the alignment based spells with honor based ones, and change a few classes to require being Honorable/Dishonorable instead of a specific alignment.

You've also got to decide whether Honor is more like Good or Law. The way OA does it, Chaotic or Evil is dishonorable, middle Honor can be Lawful Neutral, but really high Honor has to be Lawful Good. If someone would normally be LE, are they Honorable or Dishonorable in the new system?

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Jedi_Councilman 09-12-05, 08:31 PM	I'm planning a campaign where it might be more appropriate for me to eliminate alignment and replace it with the system for Honor in UA. I was wondering if anyone else has done that, and if so how it worked. Also I was curious what to do for starting Honor (in the mechanical system) when not using alignment. I was thinking of using random roll with modifiers derived from character background, and allowing players to choose to start with 0 if they want.
Aurotuli 09-12-05, 09:10 PM	I'm not going to be able to help on this one. I replaced AL with Sanctity (deities [regardless of AL] / celestials [again, regardless]) / Taint (fiends, aberrations). You might try the OA board, as honor (and Taint, for that matter) is a major part of the setting. Likely some of them have used the UA rules for it. I don't know how the UA rules compare with the OA rules, but they are likely similar.
weasel fierce 09-13-05, 01:42 AM	I havent read the UA system, but replacing alignment with an honour kind of thing, would make a lot of sense in, say, a game based around knights and such (ala Pendragon)
IceFractal 09-13-05, 02:32 AM	It could work pretty easily. You'd just need to replace the alignment based spells with honor based ones, and change a few classes to require being Honorable/Dishonorable instead of a specific alignment. You've also got to decide whether Honor is more like Good or Law. The way OA does it, Chaotic or Evil is dishonorable, middle Honor can be Lawful Neutral, but really high Honor has to be Lawful Good. If someone would normally be LE, are they Honorable or Dishonorable in the new system?