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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 8532581" data-attributes="member: 6667921">The rules never really seem to explain the alignments well enough for anybody to agree on them. So like you, if they are going to be a factor in my games (they're not always), then we have a discussion about it at the beginning of the campaign and open up further discussions as needed. There is no penalty (or benefit) for playing one alignment over another. So its neither a punishment nor a reward if it does change. That is not a reflection of the player, but a reflection on the character who may be either a) changed his perspectives, or b) fits a different alignment better than how the player originally perceived during conception. But it can be a useful tool when players need to ask &quot;what would my character do?&quot; in a given situation.Alignments just make sense to me in D&amp;D, and maybe I'm just more comfortable using them with my players than others. Its not a requirement, and I can see how it is easier to ignore. But I have seen these discussions over the years on the subject, and watched it and other aspects of the game continue to be vilified until it just seems normal to think of it as outright wrongbadfun. Its not. If it works for someone, great. If not, no problem. We don't need to have a right answer here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jacob Lewis, post: 8532581, member: 6667921"] The rules never really seem to explain the alignments well enough for anybody to agree on them. So like you, if they are going to be a factor in my games (they're not always), then we have a discussion about it at the beginning of the campaign and open up further discussions as needed. There is no penalty (or benefit) for playing one alignment over another. So its neither a punishment nor a reward if it does change. That is not a reflection of the player, but a reflection on the character who may be either a) changed his perspectives, or b) fits a different alignment better than how the player originally perceived during conception. But it can be a useful tool when players need to ask "[I]what would my character do?[/I]" in a given situation. Alignments just make sense to me in D&D, and maybe I'm just more comfortable using them with my players than others. Its not a requirement, and I can see how it is easier to ignore. But I have seen these discussions over the years on the subject, and watched it and other aspects of the game continue to be vilified until it just seems normal to think of it as outright [I]wrongbadfun[/I]. Its not. If it works for someone, great. If not, no problem. We don't need to have a right answer here. ;) [/QUOTE]

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