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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 4005799" data-attributes="member: 20564">That's HORRIBLE.D&D caters to a large assortment of settings.  WotC publishes some, 3rd party publishers others, many come from books or movies like Conan, and even more are homebrew creations of the DM's imagination.Forcing the world to do the job of an alignment system limits the possible worlds.  In my world where even in the same race their are factions and dislikes, and there are definitely bias, discrimination, and hatred between races and countries, you've taken away a tool to allow the characters to rise above that.  Instead it forces the world to take on certain characteristic you may or may not want just to fit the metaphysics of the situation.Maybe in THEIR world.  But D&D never was limited to just one world, or even just published worlds.  Heck, they will kill their existing campaign settings trying to force it on there.  Yeah, the Forgotten Realms won't be changed by Drow and Elf strolling arm in arm down the boulevard.=Blue(23)</blockquote>