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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8524971" data-attributes="member: 10148">I don't doubt for a second that Wizards intended to leave alignment out of future books as of Van Richten's; you can see the steps leading up to that choice in Candlekeep and even Tasha's. I suspect what happened is that they got enough negative feedback about the removal that they shifted to a less extreme solution.Likewise, I see no reason to expect that they won't proceed with the race and monster design philosophy in Monsters of the Multiverse, unless they get feedback that suggests otherwise. That approach has also been seen in the last few books; this is just the first time we've seen it applied to previous 5E material on a large scale.I'm not completely disagreeing with you, to be clear - they are clearly experimenting at this point. But I'm also pretty sure the design decisions they're making in printed publications are ones they absolutely intend to stick with, unless given compelling reasons to change course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8524971, member: 10148"] I don't doubt for a second that Wizards intended to leave alignment out of future books as of Van Richten's; you can see the steps leading up to that choice in Candlekeep and even Tasha's. I suspect what happened is that they got enough negative feedback about the removal that they shifted to a less extreme solution. Likewise, I see no reason to expect that they won't proceed with the race and monster design philosophy in Monsters of the Multiverse, unless they get feedback that suggests otherwise. That approach has also been seen in the last few books; this is just the first time we've seen it applied to previous 5E material on a large scale. I'm not completely disagreeing with you, to be clear - they are clearly experimenting at this point. But I'm also pretty sure the design decisions they're making in printed publications are ones they absolutely intend to stick with, unless given compelling reasons to change course. [/QUOTE]

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