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This. I ran Dragon of Icespire Peak and liked it at the time. In retrospect, I just liked expanding the sandbox around Phandalin. A...

For me, alignment is one of those sacred cows that is part of the fundamental nature of what makes Dungeons & Dragons. I've never used...

As others have said, alignment is a useful shorthand for PC and NPC alike. Where I really like it, though, is with things like...

I don’t like or use alignment but one of my players does. He likes it because he has trouble getting into role play and finds it...

I think folks often look at alignment from a straight jacket perspective. As in, if you have X/Y on the sheet then only X/Y approved...

I like alignment as an ingredient in the kitchen-sink medievalistic modern fantasy that is D&D, like having Vancian wizards and...

I find alignment useful for a general starting point on personality and viewpoint. For a lot of enemies it's a good starting point or...

If this community is any indication of how the broader D&D community feels, then it’s a pretty stark divide. The subject of evil orcs...

Unfortunately in this case my 'table' is an online server with hundreds playing at any one time, and a large team of volunteer DMs...

It's worth recalling that 3E explicitly added the often/usually/always qualifiers to creatures' alignments, in addition to continuing a...

In the real world there are only humans and they lean slightly evil. I don't equate fantasy "races" with real world ethnicities. There...

I always considered racial alignment as a broad indicator and not an absolute. Perhaps that is based on a combination of culture and...

But I have heard people say that race/species often devolves into a power gaming or cosmetic aspect because the setting has few to no...

That's right. There are fantasy heartbreakers that have been heavily informed by tons of real world research. Almost no players will...

I developed a slightly biological largely tongue in cheek approach and came up with the notion that Dwarfs are adapted to Alpine...