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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tripgnosis" data-source="post: 4353193" data-attributes="member: 27760"><p>I've always hated the notion of having an alignment as a statistic. Particularly the ability to use magic to 'know alignment' it negates intrigue and alterior motives. Even if teh PC's didn't have the ability to detect someones alignment, the abilty exists making it hard for a mole to infiltrate an oganization like a church or something. It would seem pretty likely that his true motives would be found out by NPC's in the organization who had the ability to detect algnment. There were ways around it but still, I think alignment shouldn't be that easy to categorize and stick a label on. I don't like that in 4e there is anything with alignment prereqs. The fact that there are only a few just makes it more unbalanced. A statistic should either be used fairly universally, or not at all. Overall thogh, I like the new alignment system. More generalized is better in this case, personality and motivation needs more grey area. Your actions should dictate your alignment, not the other way around. 3e alignment was  too restrictive cuz it was too specific.</p></blockquote><p></p>