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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9528638" data-attributes="member: 7023840">...well, yeah!Look, we can't agree on morality and philosophy in the real world. Why would I game that lets you play make-believe in a fantasy world with a system based on pulp genre literature from the '60s and early '70s involving platonic ideals of good and evil, law and chaos, make anything more than surface sense?I like alignments. Why? Well, for some new players, it can give them some basic guardrails. Also? I try to have a "no evil characters" policy... I don't mind complicated, but I don't want players torturing and burning down orphanages. But also because of the rich history and the memes- and the outer planes. But no, it doesn't make sense.I also happen to like muscular neutrality as a concept in Greyhawk because it can make NPCs more interesting- the same NPCs that are helping the party one day may be subverting them the next. But it's a game system, not a philosophical treatise. After all, if gaze long enough into the alignment system of D&D, the alignment system will gaze back into you.</blockquote>