I’m starting to starting think that DND alignment charts are just the political compass for people who are not into politics (or maybe the other way around?)
It sounds counterintuitive, but I think lawful and chaotic should be the other way around. Libertarians (in the sense it’s used here) tend to support freedom through fairness and consistency of the law, whereas for authoritarians the law is whatever the person in charge feels like.
I feel like alignment hasn’t really been a thing in DND for more than a decade, but there’s a steady supply of people who only “know” DND from memes keeping the idea alive.
I mean, have fun with it, but it’s very “how do you do fellow kids” sometimes.
WotC has all but removed it from 5e14, it’s functionally useless. But they seem afraid to remove it altogether. They even went so far as to take the obvious (and stupid) backlash for not having orcs be “always evil” any more, instead of just silently removing the alignment line from everything in 5e24.
It heavily relies on the players actually being consistent with their characterization. I don’t think I’m being controversial when I say that’s being generous to the players which make memes about alignment.
plenty of folks are playing old editions or clones thereof now though
Pathfinder did away with alignments completely though
last i checked it was in some weird limbo state sorta? but yeah i think the law/chaos axis was removed for Remastered
There are holy and unholy sanctifications, which pretty much only effect extraplanar beings and those that bargain with them (Clerics, Paladins)
Now you get edicts and anathemas instead of a general good/evil that you’re obligated to follow. There aren’t alignments in Pathfinder 2E after the remaster.
Meanwhile I’m here as a Changeling: the Dreaming main happy with unseelie and seelie.
Excuse me that’s clearly ARLO, the dog from Dungeons and Daddies season 3
*teeny tiny voice* alignment was never supposed to be for players consideration. it was only supposed to interact discretely with the spells and effects of Planar-type monsters and Detect/Smite Evil
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