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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8453350" data-attributes="member: 1465">Congratulations, you've just discovered why alignment is called, well... ALIGNment <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Back in the oldest editions, you could only choose on the Lawful/Chaotic and that had very much a vibe of &quot;which side of the universe are you on&quot;.The game grew up a bit wider than that and alignment became primarily a blanket description of a character ethics and morals, but the concept of being on a certain side (or three) is still very useful both to describe your PC and to actually serve as a role-playing tool.Alignment can still be an ethical &quot;tag&quot;, a faction, a country, a philosophy and more. But all these different ideas for alignment can also work together, and at the same time IMO none of these should be forced to a PC. I let my players fill alignment with what they want: one PC could be LG, another could be &quot;white&quot;, another could be &quot;Harmonium&quot;, another could be all three, and yet another could still leave it blank.And also, I think alignment should always be more of an aid than a restriction. I am never going to tell a player &quot;you wrote LG on your character sheet so I will not let you steal this weapon from the shop&quot;. What I would tell them, if they keep on shoplifting, is &quot;are you sure you still want to have LG written on your character sheet &quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8453350, member: 1465"] Congratulations, you've just discovered why alignment is called, well... ALIGNment :) Back in the oldest editions, you could only choose on the Lawful/Chaotic and that had very much a vibe of "which side of the universe are you on". The game grew up a bit wider than that and alignment became primarily a blanket description of a character ethics and morals, but the concept of being on a certain side (or three) is still very useful both to describe your PC and to actually serve as a role-playing tool. Alignment can still be an ethical "tag", a faction, a country, a philosophy and more. But all these different ideas for alignment can also work together, and at the same time IMO none of these should be forced to a PC. I let my players fill alignment with what they want: one PC could be LG, another could be "white", another could be "Harmonium", another could be all three, and yet another could still leave it blank. And also, I think alignment should always be more of an aid than a restriction. I am never going to tell a player "you wrote LG on your character sheet so I will not let you steal this weapon from the shop". What I would tell them, if they keep on shoplifting, is "are you sure you still want to have LG written on your character sheet "? [/QUOTE]

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