D&D General Do you use Alignment in your D&D games?

[Oofta]

Sounds pretty disruptive to me

There's a difference between disruptive and disturbing. The disturbing guy was a team player, although it was only for the one session I put up with it. I joined a group where the repeatedly did things like burning down buildings that likely had innocents in it to get the guy we were trying to stop. Everyone else was gung-ho part of team, to me it was evil especially because we had plenty of other options. I didn't want to be the disruptive one so I quit the group. I've had people that played PCs that were otherwise doing good things but were disruptive in their treatment of other party members.

Plenty of people play evil PC groups that are part of a team. I just don't want anything to do with it.

 

[Charlaquin]

There's a difference between disruptive and disturbing. The disturbing guy was a team player, although it was only for the one session I put up with it. I joined a group where the repeatedly did things like burning down buildings that likely had innocents in it to get the guy we were trying to stop. Everyone else was gung-ho part of team, to me it was evil especially because we had plenty of other options. I didn't want to be the disruptive one so I quit the group. I've had people that played PCs that were otherwise doing good things but were disruptive in their treatment of other party members.

Plenty of people play evil PC groups that are part of a team. I just don't want anything to do with it.

It sounds to me like that disrupts your ability to enjoy the game. But like I said,

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yeah, I think they probably make note of it, consider it, but very unlikely they believe its a straight jacket like some here continue to claim it is.

If alignment is a metal straightjacket, does it make druids explode?

Discuss.

 

[Scribe]

If alignment is a metal straightjacket, does it make druids explode?

Discuss.

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I think they would simply cease to be druids, in some kind of Schrodinger's Druid experiment.

 

[Aldarc]

What way, exactly? Seems like a lot of people are making a lot of assumptions that I didn't talk about. And very few have been keen to ask me anything.

Maybe they would be more keen to ask you questions if you weren’t busy throwing condescending facepalm memes around? Those don’t tend to invite conversation, but, rather, incite further tension.

Just a friendly suggestion from a thread observer.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

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I think they would simply cease to be druids, in some kind of Schrodinger's Druid experiment.

Finally, an explanation for how to create a sphere of annihilation!

 

[jmartkdr2]

If alignment is a metal straightjacket, does it make druids explode?

Discuss.

Depends:

LG: they flare out
LE: they freeze
CG: they melt
CE: they explode

 

[Cadence]

The problem is that most of the time you are being very lawful. Maybe you are LN most of the time, but you have some very specific(and perhaps common) triggers which when you encounter them, cause you to completely lose it and wipe out everyone within sight. When calm, you're clearly LN. When out of control(again fairly common), you're CE.

The point is any semi-realistic personality is going to be consistently falling outside of the one alignment box written down and will have behaviors in multiple other alignment boxes. And even in 3e this was not enough to justify the DM changing alignment, per RAW.

I can't believe you managed to type that with a straight face

I'm not sure what the best part is:

Acting like a split from 51-49 L to C vs. 49-51 L to C justifies switching the label from L to C (when N exists),
Acting like the LN indicator is useful at all in the case where the flop happens that often.
Acting like it meets RAW,

Acting like it would conceivably meet RAI,
or Typing the word Semi-realistic among it.

Whether it was more Twainsian or more Swiftian, it was certainly good for a laugh. Thank you!

 

[Maxperson]

I can't believe you managed to type that with a straight face

I'm not sure what the best part is:

Acting like a split from 51-49 L to C vs. 49-51 L to C justifies switching the label from L to C (when N exists),
Acting like the LN indicator is useful at all in the case where the flop happens that often.
Acting like it meets RAW,
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Acting like it would conceivably meet RAI,
or Typing the word Semi-realistic among it.

You're assuming choice there where it isn't present in all of my example. The character did make one choice, which precludes neutral. The choice(through behavior) is LN. When triggered(this is not a choice and therefore not an alignment switch), he goes berserk and kills everything around. He has issues, but switching alignment and being neutral are not among them.

Whether it was more Twainsian or more Swiftian, it was certainly good for a laugh. Thank you!

Hey. I try to make people laugh, as you probably know from the sheer number of joke posts that I make. Any time I can do so, I count it a win. This world needs more laughter.

 

[Stormonu]

The problem is that most of the time you are being very lawful. Maybe you are LN most of the time, but you have some very specific(and perhaps common) triggers which when you encounter them, cause you to completely lose it and wipe out everyone within sight. When calm, you're clearly LN. When out of control(again fairly common), you're CE.

The point is any semi-realistic personality is going to be consistently falling outside of the one alignment box written down and will have behaviors in multiple other alignment boxes. And even in 3e this was not enough to justify the DM changing alignment, per RAW.

Y'know this almost sounds like the Kingpin - though I'd suspect he's LE than LN. Or a hangin' judge.