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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9364904" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I haven't used alignment for decades. The game plays the same. Getting rid of Vancian magic would fundamentally alter the game's design and play, and so I agree that doing so would make the game feel less like D&D.But alignment has always been basically cosmetic. It was originally just there to divide characters and creatures into teams, and then it got a weird cosmology tacked on. It was never hard to do without; there used to be a few more spells and items that you had to alter slightly when you didn't use alignment, but very few. In 5e, alignment really serves no purpose beyond scratching a nostalgia itch for grognards.Edit: I don't use it, I run campaigns for beginners every term, and not one has ever asked for it. I just ask them to come up with a backstory and some basic motivations for their characters, and they are off to the races. Asking them to choose an alignment and then try to figure out what that means for how they should play would be clunky, weird, and arbitrary.</blockquote>