You need to fill in the blank there. I use alignment to help me decide what NPCs do is far different from "I use alignment to force people to play their PCs the way I think they should be played" are completely separate things.You're not the only respondent to the thread who has said this.
There are people who have said 'I use alignment to..", leaving no ambiguity.
You need to fill in the blank there. I use alignment to help me decide what NPCs do is far different from "I use alignment to force people to play their PCs the way I think they should be played" are completely separate things.
I wonder if that is a function of mostly having players who don't try to push things? Would you let the player with LG on their sheet who semi-regularly shop-lifted and lied and didn't run out to answer cries for help when his beer was fresh use the item designed for LG characters? (As was said above at one table, if it's 51% LG...)
Is that different for you in 5e than it was in 3.5 or before?I don't know what my player's PC's alignments are so it wouldn't matter. However, there may well be consequences to shoplifting and constantly lying.
Other than the paladin? No. Even then I wasn't very particular about it. Sometimes I know what the alignment is, sometimes I don't.Is that different for you in 5e than it was in 3.5 or before?
I probably hate aligment more than Snarf hates bards...
Other than the paladin? No. Even then I wasn't very particular about it. Sometimes I know what the alignment is, sometimes I don't.
The one time it came up, the paladin made a mistake and ordered the execution of innocent people that could have been saved. It would be the same with an Oath of Devotion paladin.
Characters don't choose their players. If you think they do, then you may have more serious issues to address.