Editing Midnight RPG - Alignment Conversations (section)

==Kevin==
::  Maybe you have information that I don't. Maybe Zal is evil already, as you pointed out. Maybe he's actually setting up his secret police to smuggle food and medicine to sick orphans all over Eredane, and just hasn't told us yet. Obviously, I don't have any idea what all we're dealing with here. But IF something like that is the case, I wish you'd just say what I suggested you say to Bill. -snip-  But when you start making arguments that seem (to me) completely untenable, without any indication that there's anything going on other than what we've been made aware of, it is in my nature to SAY so if I think those arguments don't hold water.


just FYI - the only reason I was making arguments was to get more info and "ammunition" in case Adam questioned the change.  As it turns out (after talking with him) he sees the point and agrees, although regrettably...

But otherwise - yeah...  '''"The GM works in mysterious ways, trust that I know what I'm doing."'''  hehe
 


::  ARE you making special allowances for one PC over another because you feel that the PC in question (and/or his player) is being unfairly "ganged up on" by the other PCs and/or players? 


No.

::  When you say that 'you wish Adam hadn't told us that', are you implying that the only reason you're entertaining the possibility that this is an alignment-buster is that someone FOUND OUT about it?" 


No.


::  There's another factor at work here, and it was touched on when I mentioned GM consistency.  -snip-  Did you argue this hard when it was MY character's alignment on the line? 


Yes and no.

I questioned just like I have here.  But I never argued for.  I haven't ever argued here for Adam.  I've questioned but not argued.  I did the same with Durgaz's alignment shift.  Exactly.


::  And another point: you say you just want to hear everyone's thoughts before you "take this to Adam". But you didn't "take it to me" when you changed Durgaz's alignment; the first I learned of it was when a good-aligned outsider sniffed it out and threatened to kill him over it. I didn't get a chance to argue MY case. What gives?



Correct.  But ONLY because yours mattered to your powers/abilities.  The choice was made then I wanted to bring it out in-game.  Bringing it to you prior would have been anti-climactic for the story purposes  (meaning you suddenly learning your power was gone).

In Adam's case.  In Steve's case.  It just doesn't matter to the abilities so there's no need to keep it.  There'd be no way to "show" it in-game as there was with you.



::  But you, being the GM, are supposed to be impartial, so when I see you acting like Zal'Kazzir's defense attorney, it bugs me. 


In my opinion I have been 100% impartial.  I've repeated noted that I AGREE with this, "however..."  then I ask a question.  Not in Zal's defense, but rather to have the full discussion.  What you're seeing as bias, is actually me just looking for more material and thought to take to Adam as reasoning behind the fact for the change.

As you noted with Bill's perceptions, I think this is just a misconception about my intentions.  In other words...

'''"The GM works in mysterious ways, trust that I know what I'm doing."''' 


::  Please don't read those last few paragraphs as antagonistic or angry, and don't take them to mean I'm accusing you of anything, because I'm not. What I AM doing there is giving you some insight into where my reaction to some of your previous responses was coming from. I get that we're in agreement, NOW, but there was a lot of in-between there when I was absolutely baffled by what seemed to be utterly specious reasoning.
::  But I get it now. So yeah, cool.



Great!

I'm not looking to baffle or confuse.  If I question, its to get more detail.  Its not because I don't have a formed opinion yet,  its not because I disagree.  Its because I want to be as informed as possible.  And also make sure that YOU are all informed or have though out things I think of, or know to be true that you're not aware of yet.