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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 5395411" data-attributes="member: 43283">Hmmmm.I seem to have utterly failed in my communication, or else the idea is so alien that nobody has done it.I understand magic doesn't have an alignment descriptor. That's not my question.My question is, has anybody tried adding an alignment descriptor to spells?Going back to Fireball as an example:Fireball has the following "descriptors": Evocation [Fire]Now, instead of thinking about Fireball as an "evocation" spell, or even as a "fire" spell, has anyone considered what sort of alignment Fireball would have?Cleric Domains are sorta going in that direction; only instead of the standard domains, spell "domains" would be the alignments (either 6 or 9 axis. I think 6 might be better personally).So for example:Chain Lightning has the following "descriptors": Evocation [Electricity]. However, it also falls under the Air domain. If you were to have alignments as domains, what alignment domain would it fall under?Please note, I'm not talking about Fireball becoming a Cleric spell. This isn't an Arcane/Divine thing. The domains are just trying to illustrate what I'm getting at; domains are basically a whole other way that spells get classed, aside from their "school".Folks have already gone through and thought, "If I was going to use D&D to run a Magic: The Gathering game, what color would [spell x] be?" There's certainly nothing official about it, in fact WotC would really prefer it if folks didn't cross their games like that. But people have at least messed around with it.In other words, alignment would be a completely different descriptor. Depending on how you wanted to run the game, it _could_ be something along the lines of cleric domains. Or it could be an alternative to the Wizard schools.Instead of specialising in Evocation, maybe a caster specialises in Chaos spells. There could be all sorts of stuff in the chaos school, which would normally be classed as Evocation, Abjuration, whatever.Schools and domains theme spells and their effects. Given how important alignment is to the underlying D&D world/system, I thought I'd see if anyone had themed magic that way.</blockquote>

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