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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8561875" data-attributes="member: 2629">In my homebrew, the alignment is downplayed, but where it comes into play it is in the eye of the beholder.&nbsp; A player puts their PC's alignment on their character sheet to describe how they see themselves.&nbsp; I ask them to look at the phb definitions for alignments when they do so.However, if a spell is cast, or a creature ability is activated, or a class ability is used - and that thing cares about alignment, I stop and think about where the power to use that ability originated, and how that entity would have thought about alignment.&nbsp; Thus, a PC might consider themselves LG because they will do whatever it takes to do what is right in the eyes of their community, even though that may mean overthrowing a cruel ruler - which is against all the laws of the land, but it is what all (but that unjust ruler and his cronies) think is right.&nbsp; However, if a LN cleric of a God of Laws were to cast a spell that only worked on Lawful beings, then that LG PC would not be counted as lawful because that Cleric's God would hold the law as the ultimate authority.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8561875, member: 2629"] In my homebrew, the alignment is downplayed, but where it comes into play it is in the eye of the beholder. A player puts their PC's alignment on their character sheet to describe how they see themselves. I ask them to look at the phb definitions for alignments when they do so. However, if a spell is cast, or a creature ability is activated, or a class ability is used - and that thing cares about alignment, I stop and think about where the power to use that ability originated, and how [I]that[/I] entity would have thought about alignment. Thus, a PC might consider themselves LG because they will do whatever it takes to do what is right in the eyes of their community, even though that may mean overthrowing a cruel ruler - which is against all the laws of the land, but it is what all (but that unjust ruler and his cronies) think is right. However, if a LN cleric of a God of Laws were to cast a spell that only worked on Lawful beings, then that LG PC would not be counted as lawful because that Cleric's God would hold the law as the ultimate authority. [/QUOTE]

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