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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 8000237" data-attributes="member: 6683613">I mean, yeah, you're always going to have to shop around for a DM who shares your vision to a certain extent. Like, I'm not a huge fan of super-high-magic settings. If I find a DM who's running a campaign in a super-high-magic setting, and I play in it, I could complain that I can't ignore the super-high-magic. Except there's not really much point in complaining about it. The only real solution here is to find a different campaign. That's just a reality of this hobby -- nothing to do with magic or alignment or any other specific rule.And I think you will find that you can ignore alignment even in some games where the DM uses it. It's in the rules in the same way magic is in the rules: its prevalence is pretty open to interpretation. Some DMs have a what we might term a &quot;super-high-alignment&quot; perspective, with XP penalties for behaving &quot;out of alignment&quot; and all that jazz. But some don't. Sometimes you can just show up, play your character however you think best, and let the DM worry about how to label you if that's what they're into. So I guess my advice is just to keep an open mind, try earnestly to figure out if a particular DM's style works for you, and not alienate yourself from a whole bunch of campaigns unnecessarily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 8000237, member: 6683613"] I mean, yeah, you're always going to have to shop around for a DM who shares your vision to a certain extent. Like, I'm not a huge fan of super-high-magic settings. If I find a DM who's running a campaign in a super-high-magic setting, and I play in it, I could complain that I can't ignore the super-high-magic. Except there's not really much point in [I]complaining[/I] about it. The only real solution here is to find a different campaign. That's just a reality of this hobby -- nothing to do with magic or alignment or any other specific rule. And I think you will find that you [I]can[/I] ignore alignment even in some games where the DM uses it. It's in the rules in the same way magic is in the rules: its prevalence is pretty open to interpretation. Some DMs have a what we might term a "super-high-alignment" perspective, with XP penalties for behaving "out of alignment" and all that jazz. But some don't. Sometimes you can just show up, play your character however you think best, and let the DM worry about how to label you if that's what they're into. So I guess my advice is just to keep an open mind, try earnestly to figure out if a particular DM's style works for you, and not alienate yourself from a whole bunch of campaigns unnecessarily. [/QUOTE]

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