D&D 5E Do you find alignment useful in any way?

[Vaalingrade]

We don't want the conversation closed.

I mean we'd all be 1000% better for it...

 

[Maxperson]

What edition is 1 in 10 and at 1 in 10 frequency, how is that even in the same galaxy as a good approximation of the labeled group.

Editions aren't a part of this. I'm talking about rarity and what constitutes rare and uncommon as they are commonly(hehehe) understood.

That's like saying 'humans don't have red hair' and then saying it's close enough to be true.

This has nothing to do with what I said.

 

[Vaalingrade]

That guy is the villain, right?

Don't worry, they portray goblins as cartoonishly evil as possible in the most childishly 90's edgelord way that it excuses him.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

He didn't say orc. Leave orcs out of this. We don't want the conversation closed.

Gnoll, goblin, drow whatever. Sapient non-human is what matters.

 

[Maxperson]

I mean we'd all be 1000% better for it...

If you don't like it, don't participate and let those of us who are enjoying it continue. Much like alignment.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Editions aren't a part of this. I'm talking about rarity and what constitutes rare and uncommon as they are commonly(hehehe) understood.

This has nothing to do with what I said.

1 in 10 is so far from rare that the light from rare will not reach it for 10,000 years. That's 10%, which is a LOT.

10% of Americans and 30 MILLION People.

 

[transmission89]

Have you read that particular view?

Because some things you don't demand and IMO on.

Wait, aren’t you arguing against an objective definition of good and evil?

I have indeed, it fits within his own view of his milieu. Of course, one is free to disagree with that approach in their own setting.

It’s rarely one I’ve used in my settings, though have on occasion depending on the setting.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Gnoll, goblin, drow whatever. Sapient non-human is what matters.

Well, I mean, they don't. That's the point of alignment on the monster side of things.

 

[Maxperson]

Gnoll, goblin, drow whatever. Sapient non-human is what matters.

He already answered that in his response to me. If the DM has changed alignment so that all of a race is inherently one thing, then it makes a difference whether one is a member of that race or human. But then that would be a DM issue, not an alignment issue as the DM can do the same thing in a game with no alignment in it.

 

[transmission89]

Gnoll, goblin, drow whatever. Sapient non-human is what matters.

Should I meet a gnoll, goblin, drow, whatever, I’ll be sure to apologise, have no fear!