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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6615267" data-attributes="member: 20323">I think the real question is:Is the player's behavior and way of playing their character a problem? In other words, does it come at the expense of the rest of the group's fun?If, for example, you are asking &quot;help me explain&quot; but the sub-text is &quot;help me convince my player to stop acting like an evil douche because this is Dragonlance and the PCs are supposed to be good guys&quot;...then it's time for a frank talk with that player about the group's play expectations and the themes of the Dragonlance setting.If, on the other hand, you're asking &quot;help me explain&quot; because you're hung up on the definition of an alignment, but it's not actually affecting your game, then who the heck cares? In 5e 'chaotic neutral' or 'neutral evil' are just descriptors with hardly any rules referring to alignment; even 5e's detect evil or good doesn't refer to alignment but to supernatural creature type. You could have the player write greedy mercenary in their alignment line and it would have just as much significance as any other alignment descriptor (and probably in this case be more accurate!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6615267, member: 20323"] I think the real question is: Is the player's behavior and way of playing their character a problem? In other words, does it come at the expense of the rest of the group's fun? If, for example, you are asking "help me explain" but the sub-text is "help me convince my player to stop acting like an evil douche because this is Dragonlance and the PCs are supposed to be good guys"...then it's time for a frank talk with that player about the group's play expectations and the themes of the Dragonlance setting. If, on the other hand, you're asking "help me explain" because you're hung up on the definition of an alignment, but it's not actually affecting your game, then who the heck cares? In 5e 'chaotic neutral' or 'neutral evil' are just descriptors with hardly any rules referring to alignment; even 5e's [i]detect evil or good[/i] doesn't refer to alignment but to supernatural creature type. You could have the player write [b]greedy mercenary[/b] in their alignment line and it would have just as much significance as any other alignment descriptor (and probably in this case be more accurate!). [/QUOTE]

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