D&D 5E RIP alignment

[DEFCON 1]

Which takes less work and effort?

I don't know. How long does it take you to remember than trolls are evil? I bet you've already done it even before you finish reading this sentence.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

So, even if D&D does this, what does that mean for the many other pieces of media influenced by D&D? Is Legend of Zelda going to have to get rid of always evil monsters? Is Link going to have to talk to every moblin he meets to make sure they're evil before he fights them?

 

[Scribe]

You have literally just said that the great loss of having no alignments is... having no alignments. So how is this bad?

I like systems. Alignment serves well enough to set a baseline of motivation, or behavior.

 

[Scribe]

I don't know. How long does it take you to remember than trolls are evil? I bet you've already done it even before you finish reading this sentence.

Then why remove it?

 

[Scribe]

Honestly, I'm prepping for TBC, 5e will be where my edition stops it seems, and I couldnt possibly care to get into another 'float ASI should be the only way, screw you guys who want something else' mega thread.

 

[Alzrius]

I like systems. Alignment serves well enough to set a baseline of motivation, or behavior.

Now I'm imagining the designers at WotC giving the Apocalypse speech.

"No more negative ability modifiers. No more fixed ASIs. No more alignments! NO MORE SYSTEMS! NO MORE!"

 

[el-remmen]

I like alignment a lot. What I don't like is inherent alignment along racial/species lines (except for fiends and undead) and as far as I am concerned that is all that needs to be fixed.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Then why remove it?

Did you not read my post explicitly saying WHY WotC would choose to remove it? Go back and read the post and it'll say exactly why they would.

 

[Faolyn]

I like systems. Alignment serves well enough to set a baseline of motivation, or behavior.

That's not a loss, though. You said we'd lose something, but this suggests that the only thing you lose is maybe a minute of time when you have to come up with a motivation for a creature's actions instead of relying on "welp, it's evil."

 

[Scribe]

Did you not read my post explicitly saying WHY WotC would choose to remove it? Go back and read the post and it'll say exactly why they would.

The other lessens the possibility that some new players decide to pick up the game because the default racial tropes are not to their liking.

This? Thats fundamentally flawed thinking, because alignment is not racist.