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Sometimes I have them as allies...but I don't think they need to serve a game design purpose. Their role in world-building is...

Having Good and Evil as tangible forces is a fun, flavorful, gameable thing. You can detect it, of course, but I think its at is most...

It looks like you can buy it on either Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds, for $14.99 USD at either place. So the cheapest current option I'm...

I choose starting level for the specific campaign or theme adventure experience I'm going for. It could be anywhere from 1 to 20 with...

Yeah. 5e doesn't particularly give you any good reason to bother messing with the hassle of a mount. A meaningful travel speed boost...

Something like that would be my solution as well. I totally appreciate that it's not particularly realistic, but the realistic reasons...

Alignment as a restrictive rule that one must obey (as originally conceived) is borked. It was the GM's job to police your behavior...

Alignment is as I said about core values, ethos, fundamental beliefs. You separate it in two or three ways, first by noting that all...

Interesting take. I've tended to merge some personality elements into alignment, specifically the L/C axis. For instance, I have a...

So alignment is always separated from personality to a very large degree. Mistaking alignment for personality is one of the most common...

I think it would be a mistake to think that everyone of the same alignment agrees on every issue or that everyone of different...

I know what you're talking about. I like to define selfish as seeking what you want at the expense of others. If it isn't at the expense...

I think for the most part 3e did a decent job of describing alignment with the exception that the writers didn't understand or make any...

I like alignment because: 1) It expresses the cosmological nature of the Planescape / Great Wheel cosmology which I love. 2) It is...

I think that is a grotesquely simplified version of not only RPG history but the dynamics of play. My reading of the very first RPG...