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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3610060" data-attributes="member: 30001">Yes it makes sense.&nbsp; The problem, as I said, is that alignment is about your means and intentions, not the result.&nbsp; Your in a better position to judge results than intentions, no doubt - but then you could always determine a persons alignment by the color of hat that they wear - that's even easier to judge.IMO if you want to get out of the business of judging intent, the better thing to do is not put yourself in a position where you need to.&nbsp; Why do you care about alignment? - It's because certain rules (spells, character classes) force the DM to.&nbsp; If you remove/modify those rules, you can actually just let people play.I realize this is a big departure from the RAW and probably not for everyone - but I dropped alignment as written 15 years ago or so and have never regretted it.&nbsp; Granted, &quot;good&quot;, &quot;evil&quot;, &quot;law&quot;, and &quot;chaos&quot; are still forces in my world.&nbsp; Demons are chaotic evil.&nbsp; But mortals are a mixture of the four alignments,&nbsp; Spells and such have to change, it's not a trivial change to make - but it's gotten me out of a lot of problems with alignment, including the one you describe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 3610060, member: 30001"] Yes it makes sense. The problem, as I said, is that alignment is about your means and intentions, not the result. Your in a better position to judge results than intentions, no doubt - but then you could always determine a persons alignment by the color of hat that they wear - that's even easier to judge. IMO if you want to get out of the business of judging intent, the better thing to do is not put yourself in a position where you need to. Why do you care about alignment? - It's because certain rules (spells, character classes) force the DM to. If you remove/modify those rules, you can actually just let people play. I realize this is a big departure from the RAW and probably not for everyone - but I dropped alignment as written 15 years ago or so and have never regretted it. Granted, "good", "evil", "law", and "chaos" are still forces in my world. Demons are chaotic evil. But mortals are a mixture of the four alignments, Spells and such have to change, it's not a trivial change to make - but it's gotten me out of a lot of problems with alignment, including the one you describe. [/QUOTE]

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