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<blockquote data-quote="Baumi" data-source="post: 8756242" data-attributes="member: 2569">I'm not sure if it is so iconic, after all there were quite a few iterations of it, without a big backlash. OD&amp;D had only the Law-Chaos Axis, then later came the 9 Alignments that were heavily used by spells and Class features, then there was the 4E Version where most were unalligned and in 5E they went back to the classic 9 but without mechanical weight.Also there were some bad blood about some humanoids who where marked as evil (like Orcs and Drow). Because of that, they changed some books, lore and the alignment of monsters. So I think that WOTC would love to get rid of such a controversal feature.As a GM I don't even ask the players about their alignment and I am sure most haven't even even filled it out. I cannot remember that Beyond even asks for that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />But all that said, I actually like alignment for Monsters/NPCs where it tells me a lot about it with a single glance. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Baumi, post: 8756242, member: 2569"] I'm not sure if it is so iconic, after all there were quite a few iterations of it, without a big backlash. OD&D had only the Law-Chaos Axis, then later came the 9 Alignments that were heavily used by spells and Class features, then there was the 4E Version where most were unalligned and in 5E they went back to the classic 9 but without mechanical weight. Also there were some bad blood about some humanoids who where marked as evil (like Orcs and Drow). Because of that, they changed some books, lore and the alignment of monsters. So I think that WOTC would love to get rid of such a controversal feature. As a GM I don't even ask the players about their alignment and I am sure most haven't even even filled it out. I cannot remember that Beyond even asks for that. :p But all that said, I actually like alignment for Monsters/NPCs where it tells me a lot about it with a single glance. :) [/QUOTE]

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