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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FourthBear" data-source="post: 3830342" data-attributes="member: 55846">I dislike alignment as a cosmological force that defines planes and results in creatures with detectable alignment tags.  It just gets me that you could go to your local spellcaster once a week and have your alignment checked to see if you were beginning to slide.  "Gee, John, you're looking a little Chaotic Evil today.  Why not arrest some lawbreakers and fund an orphanage and get yourself back to True Neutral?"  So I'm all for removing mechanical effects of alignment.Now, as a descriptor to guide player's actions and to aid DMs in understanding opponent behavior...you know I still don't like it.  As it currently stands, the two axis system has far too little descriptive power.  The only cases where they fit are the obvious ones where a simple sentence would do much better.  Do we really need CE to describe a murderous bandit?  Or LG for a noble king?  And the cases where there's ambiguity are even worse, since then the two axis system just doesn't have what it takes to classify a character.  All it seems to do is result in endless, pointless arguments.  I've never seen a convincing case that alignment would serve to help me describe any fictional character of even moderate depth, like Robin Hood or Conan.  If we're going to keep alignment as a descriptive tag, I'd like to see it opened way up from the nine alignments.  Maybe have tags for Wrathful, Forgiving, Greedy, Bigoted, Romantic and such.</blockquote>

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