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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6819887" data-attributes="member: 22779">&quot;What?!?!&nbsp; My character isn't evil.&nbsp; How dare you declare me evil.&nbsp; My character hasn't done anything evil.&nbsp; Who the heck are you to tell me what my character is!!!&quot; is pretty much the exact conversation and reaction I would expect from the player.&nbsp; :/&nbsp; Unfortunately.I've told this story before, but, I remember having a player who insisted on his character being CN.&nbsp; I wasn't thrilled with the idea, but, I decided to let it slide.&nbsp; Three or four levels into the campaign, I came back to the player and asked him why his character was CN.&nbsp; His character was entirely reliable, planned extensively, never impulsive, and was always on the side of good.&nbsp; &quot;Your character is LG isn't he?&quot; I asked.&quot;Absolutely not.&nbsp; No offing way.&nbsp; There is no way my character is LG,&quot; was the reply.This went back and forth for a while and then I had a bit of an epiphany.&nbsp; The player had zero interest in the actual alignment on his character sheet, he just didn't want me stepping in and telling him how he should or should not act.&nbsp; He really believed in the &quot;golden fence&quot; around his character where the DM has control of everything on the other side of the fence, but, within that fence, that belongs 100% to the player.&nbsp; In the end, I just let it go, and, now, quite a lot later, I tend to completely forget about alignment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6819887, member: 22779"] "What?!?! My character isn't evil. How dare you declare me evil. My character hasn't done anything evil. Who the heck are you to tell me what my character is!!!" is pretty much the exact conversation and reaction I would expect from the player. :/ Unfortunately. I've told this story before, but, I remember having a player who insisted on his character being CN. I wasn't thrilled with the idea, but, I decided to let it slide. Three or four levels into the campaign, I came back to the player and asked him why his character was CN. His character was entirely reliable, planned extensively, never impulsive, and was always on the side of good. "Your character is LG isn't he?" I asked. "Absolutely not. No offing way. There is no way my character is LG," was the reply. This went back and forth for a while and then I had a bit of an epiphany. The player had zero interest in the actual alignment on his character sheet, he just didn't want me stepping in and telling him how he should or should not act. He really believed in the "golden fence" around his character where the DM has control of everything on the other side of the fence, but, within that fence, that belongs 100% to the player. In the end, I just let it go, and, now, quite a lot later, I tend to completely forget about alignment. [/QUOTE]

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