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It's not a "dubious" romanization, it's just a different romanization. The politics of written Chinese are... complicated.

Yeah, or invisibility. Both level 2 spells, both reasonable to get in some form at 3rd.

Phantom: Needs some way to be "ghosty" before high levels. Genie Pact: Is the bottle a free bag of holding at level 1? Scribe: Just make the book a familiar, and have it be animate before level 10. The level 2 feature really doesn't say "Your spellbook is sentient" to me. Also, the free spell...

From my campaign... ENCLAVE GOLIATH Once, the mountaintops were crowned with soaring walls and towers, and the cliff-faces rang with the songs of a proud people. Now, in scattered settlements, enclave goliaths seek to preserve the ways of their ancient, long-lost civilization. Ability Score...

The way feats work in 5E, just call it "Aerobatic Warrior" and give it two or three discrete effects, extra damage on a dive being one of them.

Also keep in mind that whenever a character tries to do anything "at the last second", a DM is perfectly within their rights to ask for a Dexterity saving throw to do so successfully. Feather fall is a fast-cast spell, sure, but the rules still assume that you're normally going to want to cast...

Vanish is already that, though. Without the blanket +10 bonus to Stealth checks, admittedly, but that's probably busted as a class feature (it's pretty busted even as a spell), so I assume it's not what you were referring to.

I think the question of whether or not to allow such PC behavior is orthogonal to questions about what it means for alignment. It gets more at player motivation than character motivation. But you do raise another use for the alignment system which I had not heretofore considered: you need to...

I think you've mistaken my intention. You are explaining how the current ability works; I am proposing replacing it.

The ranger's Hide in Plain Sight is weird and janky. I think most people are on the same page about this. WotC replaces it pretty much every time they do anything to modify the ranger. My thought is: why not just have it do what it says in the name? Starting at 10th level, you can spend 1...

There's a reason I'm analyzing the preacher as a protagonist in a story.

That assertion -- and all the similar assertions in your post -- are presupposing a definition of D&D Evil(TM), which I am still avoiding. Instead, I'll ask: if we are all changing as characters, should a system purported to provide a description for our characters also be changing? You say this...

The experiment is primarily to test whether the preacher is perceived to have changed as a person. Secondarily, we can look at whether that change is in the direction of a morally blameworthy state. I'm specifically not looking for whether or not he gets a label of D&D Evil(TM) by excluding...

Well, I proposed an experiment, so you can run it and prove me wrong, or not.

Uh... I would hypothesize that if you showed this narrative to a bunch of people who had no knowledge at all of the D&D alignment system and asked them to describe the character arc depicted in it, you'd get a lot of descriptions along the lines of "falling from grace" or "turning to the dark...

"Problems"? What problems exactly? "People"? Who exactly? I find that conversations tend to be more productive when we all address actual specific points that have been raised by actual specific participants in the talk.

I mean Doing something bad is kind of how you turn evil, yeah

Is this assuming the PCs have some sort of reputation consistent with their alignment which the NPCs have heard of, or can NPCs just intuit PC alignment automatically?