Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Pages from the PHB
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6311293" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I don't really agree, and as Dausuul points out, the current wording is somewhat ambiguous in that it doesn't say your behaviour changes. By breaking the link between behaviour and alignment, which imho, is putting the cart before the horse, one creates a confusing situation.</p><p></p><p>Just as a side-matter, literally every single problem I've ever seen alignment cause, without exception, has been because of people taking an approach where they derive their PC's behaviour from their alignment, which is often narrowly defined (5E has pretty good, even great definitions, at least, except Neutral, which has dangerous-if-distant echoes of "TRUE NEUTRAL!!!"), rather than making a character with a personality, and then deciding what alignment would be appropriate. This is why so many Paladins caused problems - people saw the LG, and tried to work from that, rather than making a character who would naturally be LG. Well it's a long discussion and probably for another thread, but anyway, I think they'd be better off just removing that particular entry. Or just make it the "mechanical only" change - in that you continue to be you, but suddenly supernatural beings are reacting to you very differently. That seems more in-keeping with a Wild Mage anyway. If they don't remove I'll probably do one of those myself. I'm pretty sure that if I run 5E I have a player who will be irresistibly drawn to Wild Mage... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6311293, member: 18"] I don't really agree, and as Dausuul points out, the current wording is somewhat ambiguous in that it doesn't say your behaviour changes. By breaking the link between behaviour and alignment, which imho, is putting the cart before the horse, one creates a confusing situation. Just as a side-matter, literally every single problem I've ever seen alignment cause, without exception, has been because of people taking an approach where they derive their PC's behaviour from their alignment, which is often narrowly defined (5E has pretty good, even great definitions, at least, except Neutral, which has dangerous-if-distant echoes of "TRUE NEUTRAL!!!"), rather than making a character with a personality, and then deciding what alignment would be appropriate. This is why so many Paladins caused problems - people saw the LG, and tried to work from that, rather than making a character who would naturally be LG. Well it's a long discussion and probably for another thread, but anyway, I think they'd be better off just removing that particular entry. Or just make it the "mechanical only" change - in that you continue to be you, but suddenly supernatural beings are reacting to you very differently. That seems more in-keeping with a Wild Mage anyway. If they don't remove I'll probably do one of those myself. I'm pretty sure that if I run 5E I have a player who will be irresistibly drawn to Wild Mage... :) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Pages from the PHB
Top