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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 4003029" data-attributes="member: 15651">In 28 years of playing D&D, alignment has never done this for me.  I have never played in a game where people ask each others alignment as if it were a tangible thing like nationality.  In most games I've played alignment has been information shared only between the player and the DM.  The player uses it to help guide roleplaying of their PC under certain circumstances, the DM uses it to help understand how the player might run his PC.  I do not believe I have ever played in a game where the reason the PCs adventure together is because they have compatible alignments.I have played in games where the PCs adventure together to thwart evil, but they didn't run around checking alignments to see if they were doing so, they did it the way that it works in the real world, by perceiving the behavior of their opponents:  The orcs slaughtered the caravan drivers, lets go get the orcs.  Someone has been kidnapping the children of the townspeople.  We need to find who is behind this and stop them. Someone has tried to assassinate the king!Just because someone no longer has "Chaotic Evil" attached to their stat block does not mean they will no longer act in a CE manner.  The main difference with eliminating alignment is that the CE person can suddenly act in a NG manner when it suits them and people will not scream and holler that they are acting against their alignment.</blockquote>

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