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<blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9508983" data-attributes="member: 6894926">I was going to disagree, but when I went to examples in my head.. they're all prescriptive. Michael Moorcock's eternal champions are all set on their path by what they are. With DCC characters, you choose your Law/Neutral/Chaos alignment at level 0, before the game starts. How can alignment be descriptive if you haven't actually played the character yet? I guess it could be descriptive of what little background you might have given them? It seems to be a choice that you make because you want your character to be aligned with that choice... not something assigned to your character because of how they've behaved.I've tried doing descriptive alignments, but then it's not so much the player that's going to be judging the characters' alignments, it's the GM... and I've had players that were displeased by a decision that &quot;your character is not lawful.&quot; I guess that can happen with prescriptive alignments, but at least with those the player is guided by their choice. Maybe alignment prescription helps the player separate what they want, from what their character would want? A roleplaying guideline?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Distracted DM, post: 9508983, member: 6894926"] I was going to disagree, but when I went to examples in my head.. they're all prescriptive. Michael Moorcock's eternal champions are all set on their path by what they are. With DCC characters, you choose your Law/Neutral/Chaos alignment at level 0, before the game starts. How can alignment be descriptive if you haven't actually played the character yet? I guess it could be descriptive of what little background you might have given them? It seems to be a choice that you make because you want your character to be aligned with that choice... not something assigned to your character because of how they've behaved. I've tried doing descriptive alignments, but then it's not so much the player that's going to be judging the characters' alignments, it's the GM... and I've had players that were displeased by a decision that "your character is not lawful." I guess that can happen with prescriptive alignments, but at least with those the player is guided by their choice. Maybe alignment prescription helps the player separate what they want, from what their character would want? A roleplaying guideline? [/QUOTE]

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