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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8616700" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Alignment doesn't need to exist. The only mechanical effect that it has in 5e is for a handful of minor magic items. It has no effect on spells, no effect on what class you can be a member of, your race doesn't affect it, your background doesn't limit your alignment, and the Great Wheel is the only true part of D&D's "mechanics" actually connected to it. It doesn't need to exist in 5e. It has no mechanical significance. From my experience, it has literally only ever been used in one of the following ways in 5e:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A small descriptive text that a player chooses upon making their character and forgets about for the rest of the campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A bludgeon used to restrict the actions of fellow players due to whatever alignment they chose to write when making their character.</li> </ol>I have never seen it enhance a game. I have literally only ever seen it do nothing to it, or be an active detriment to it. Removing it would both not prevent anyone that actually still uses it from using it in the way the 5e currently does (because it basically doesn't affect anything anymore) and would make it so alignment wasn't a default assumption of the game. It's not "badwrongfun" to say that something has actively hurt your campaigns, never benefitted it, and you think that the game would be better off without it being assumed in the core rules. I'm not forcing anyone else to stop using alignment. I'm not saying people aren't true fans for liking/using alignment. I just think that it's a stupid sacred cow that shouldn't be in the core assumptions of the game anymore and does more harm than good by being in it in the first place. If it already doesn't do much in 5e . . . it also doesn't matter for it to be taken out.</blockquote>

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