Sacrosanct
Legend
Again, there is nothing saying you can't describe orcs as warlike (or whatever) in their description. That gives you the exact info you're wanting. All you're doing is no longer making the defaulted to evil murderers. What exactly are you losing? You keep saying you're losing too much, but haven't really explained what (not in any way that makes sense anyway, since it literally is zero effort to say "I want orcs to be evil in my campaign, so they are. End stop.")Seems quite arbitrary to me to say that categorization is bad in some cases but not others.
For many people, alignment is handy. If you see "usually CE" for an orc or "usually LE" for duergar those two little letters have told me a lot about how most creatures of that type they approach the world.
A MM with no alignments I believe would be confusing for a lot of people.
I don't see anything new here.
I do not agree that it is confusing to people to have alignment as "any alignment." I don't buy that argument at all. How is that confusing? It's pretty clear and concise: they can be any alignment you want them to be. What part of that will confuse people?
edit Pilgrims are listed as any alignment in the same MM. Are DMs confused how to run pilgrims in their campaign? Or do they just run them as they want to run them as it fits in their campaign?
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