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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8404547" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Yes...because sending undead out to 'raid' a village (killing, harming and stealing) is an EVIL ACT in the D&amp;D game. So yeah...in this case, he's evil.It's not what the &quot;bad guy&quot; has for justification. That is irrelevant. It's what and how he goes about trying to get what he wants that will determine his alignment...if he's evil or not.To you, they may be subjective...to the game of D&amp;D...they are not. If you want to toss out alignments in your game, go for it. You can then drench your campaign in &quot;but that's what my PC/NPC would do&quot; juice and it can be a very fun game. Many games out there don't have any sort of an &quot;Alignment&quot; system in them and they run fine. But we are talking about D&amp;D here...where Alignment is a metaphysical/multiplanar &quot;thing&quot;, with a definition in the Rules.Impossible. That's like starting a thread about removing Classes and then saying &quot;Ok, lets just talk about it, but please don't anyone try and define what a Class is or what Classes exist in the game&quot;. You're asking about &quot;Evil&quot; (and &quot;Good&quot;, &quot;Neutral&quot;)...and then asking people to not talk about what is Evil/Good/Neutral as defined in the game.But, as I said above, if you want to remove ALignments from your game, go for it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I have done this once or twice before for small little mini-campaigns. Didn't make much difference, but it did, to me, remove a bit of the &quot;feeling of playing D&amp;D&quot;.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8404547, member: 45197"] Hiya! Yes...because sending undead out to 'raid' a village (killing, harming and stealing) is an EVIL ACT in the D&D game. So yeah...in this case, he's evil. It's not what the "bad guy" has for justification. That is irrelevant. It's [I]what[/I] and [I]how[/I] he goes about trying to get what he wants that will determine his alignment...if he's evil or not. To you, they may be subjective...to the game of D&D...they are not. If you want to toss out alignments in your game, go for it. You can then drench your campaign in "but that's what my PC/NPC would do" juice and it can be a very fun game. Many games out there don't have any sort of an "Alignment" system in them and they run fine. But we are talking about D&D here...where Alignment is a metaphysical/multiplanar "thing", with a definition in the Rules. Impossible. That's like starting a thread about removing Classes and then saying "Ok, lets just talk about it, but please don't anyone try and define what a Class is or what Classes exist in the game". You're asking about "Evil" (and "Good", "Neutral")...and then asking people to not talk about what is Evil/Good/Neutral as defined in the game. But, as I said above, if you want to remove ALignments from your game, go for it! :) I have done this once or twice before for small little mini-campaigns. Didn't make much difference, but it did, to me, remove a bit of the "feeling of playing D&D". ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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