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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6096504" data-attributes="member: 4937">Though I did understand the OP to be refering to the player's character's alignment, this is a good point.  Though, at the risk of derailing the thread, I'd have to say that on a purely emperical basis I'd have to disagree.  It is observable that many players do seem to have an alignment, in that they are completely unable to play characters of anything but that alignment regardless of the system, rules set, setting, or what is written on the character sheet.In my recent campaign I've had eight different players.  Two were completely unable to play anything but Chaotic Evil.  One is completely unable to play anything but Lawful Good, favors the alignment and can't play anything else.   One plays every character from the gamist stance I call Neutral (Survivalist), and favors writing Neutral on his character sheet.   Whether this reflects their actual moral views as a person is a different matter, but I have noted that people as players definately play as if they had an alignment.I'm not sure I agree that hack and slash suits 'team jersey' approaches better than moral code approaches.  I find that 'hack and slash' tends to suit just everyone writing neutral on their character sheet, as the real 'jersey' worn by the players tends to be not 'Team Evil' or 'Team Good' but 'Team Us'.</blockquote>