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If a table does not use alignment, there is no "correct" alignment. The character is more complex than a simple two word descriptor. Or...

Why? Optional character personality descriptor is optional. It's like saying that all published adventures must feature bastions.

I didn't, I've only heard accounts from players who have. But generally, they all ended with the world blowing up.

Sure, in that the GM can make a swarm of pixies appear and interfere with the player, irrespective of what the player rolls on the dice...

Im ok with that. Its a starter set keep it basic.

I can usually pick out a California accent, but only because one of my players is from there.

"The speckled band..."

Wrong. The thing about failed skill checks is that if the character had been more proficent, they would have succeeded. Ergo, any failed...

I have seen it stated in a couple of places that only Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, and Rogue are in the starter set.

I just double-checked the contents of the box. This thing is STACKED. It's definitely still a "loss leader" (in that WotC did NOT put a...

It depends what you are looking for from the character. Ruffalo made the character fun to watch, but his version of the character wasn't...

It's not "looking the part" that's important, it's acting the part. That's why its called acting, not looking. Ford is fun and all, but...

That’s because some tables use alignment and others do not. There is no alignment in my games, ergo when I design NPCs I don’t give them...

On a tangentially related note, I wonder how plausible it would be to use an LLM to generate all of Friend Computer's non-pre-scripted...

Because none of those ethnicities have mechanical game stats attached to them. They're all bumping elbows in the "human" category, nice...