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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1921802" data-attributes="member: 11734">Sometimes, we play with the normal rules.Other times, we chuck alignments. Two basic ways that have worked well:1) Use Arcana Unearthed. No alignment-based spells.2) To use normal D&D spells with as little change as possible, alignment is replaced by religious rivalries. Each entity of worship (be it a god, pantheon, or philosophy) has at least one enemy faith, and possibly one or more allied faiths. The faith and its allied faiths are considered the same alignment for alignment-based spell effects, enemy faiths are the opposed alignment, everybody else is neutral.For example, if I did this with the Greek pantheon, Athena's faith would probably be enemies with Ares' faith, and maybe allied to Apollo's. So if a cleric of Athena casts "Detect Evil", a cleric of Ares would show up. "Detect Good" would ding on a cleric of Apollo. Of course, due to politicking and such the religious enmities aren't always mapped directly to the current situation - there are times when clerics of Ares and Athena are on the same side, and when clerics of Athena and Apollo are working at cross-purposes.</blockquote>