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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8033946" data-attributes="member: 27780">Yup. We had a thread about this topic <a href="https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/riffing-on-the-great-wheel-add-another-alignment-axis.784934" target="_blank">over on rpg.net a few years ago.</a> This is what I wrote in there.The funny thing is that D&amp;D already has a 3 axis opposed elemental structure, with positive and negative energy neatly mapping to two other 5th elements that have repeatedly appeared in various media - Spirit/Heart and Void. If you assign moral qualities to the elements and roll the inner and outer planes together, you get something like -Air/Earth: Fast, erratic change vs slow, structured change.Fire/Water: aggressive and destructive vs creative and peacefulHeart/Void: Social and empathic vs solitary and selfish.Which are qualities that are a lot easier to define precisely than good/evil law/chaos, and would also make for a good alternate cosmology. Taking the existing D&amp;D planes and rearranging them to fit, and then adding a few new ones to fill the gaps got me this result.The Myers Briggs personality test also seems quite adaptable into a replacement for D&amp;D alignment. <a href="https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/" target="_blank">The Myers &amp; Briggs Foundation&nbsp; - MBTI® Basics</a>More flippantly, there's also the Monkey/Dinosaur and Pirate/Ninja alignment square from the 2004 April Fools Dragon issue, that also makes for a functional, yet profoundly silly cosmological conflict. (with humans firmly on the monkey side of the axis)Edit: And let's not forget the greatest, most serious cosmological conflict of all time.[ATTACH=full]123591[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8033946, member: 27780"] Yup. We had a thread about this topic [URL='https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/riffing-on-the-great-wheel-add-another-alignment-axis.784934']over on rpg.net a few years ago.[/URL] This is what I wrote in there. The funny thing is that D&D already has a 3 axis opposed elemental structure, with positive and negative energy neatly mapping to two other 5th elements that have repeatedly appeared in various media - Spirit/Heart and Void. If you assign moral qualities to the elements and roll the inner and outer planes together, you get something like - Air/Earth: Fast, erratic change vs slow, structured change. Fire/Water: aggressive and destructive vs creative and peaceful Heart/Void: Social and empathic vs solitary and selfish. Which are qualities that are a lot easier to define precisely than good/evil law/chaos, and would also make for a good alternate cosmology. Taking the existing D&D planes and rearranging them to fit, and then adding a few new ones to fill the gaps got me this result. The Myers Briggs personality test also seems quite adaptable into a replacement for D&D alignment. [URL='https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/']The Myers & Briggs Foundation - MBTI® Basics[/URL] More flippantly, there's also the Monkey/Dinosaur and Pirate/Ninja alignment square from the 2004 April Fools Dragon issue, that also makes for a functional, yet profoundly silly cosmological conflict. (with humans firmly on the monkey side of the axis) Edit: And let's not forget the greatest, most serious cosmological conflict of all time. [ATTACH type="full"]123591[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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