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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FourthBear" data-source="post: 4152739" data-attributes="member: 55846"><p>I don't think alignment brings much to the table in D&D.  I've never found a compelling design purpose for it.  Is it to help the DM understand the motivations of NPCs?  Is it a way of labeling monsters as "OK to kill"?  Is it there to promote the kind of cosmic conflicts seen in the Elric stories?  Is it there to encourage players to define their PCs' philosophies?  Is it a tag to be attached to characters for spellcasting purposes?  Why did the system carry around that two letter code for all PCs, NPCs and monsters?  If alignment had a better defined purpose, I think the game could actually work to create a much better system for accomplishing that purpose.  But most of the time it seems to me to be a soft blend of many different design goals, most of which aren't very well articulated.</p></blockquote><p></p>