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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8486560" data-attributes="member: 2209">Easily.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Page 11 "Your character is a combination of game statistics, roleplaying hooks, and your imagination. You choose a race (such as human or halfling) and a class (such as fighter or wizard). You also invent the personality, appearance, and backstory of your character."The stats are mechanics. They apply when mechanics are called for.There is a lot of talk about the character concept you come up with for your character, for instance page 13-14 "Your DM might offer additional backgrounds beyond the ones included in chapter 4, and might be willing to work with you to craft a background that's a more precise fit for your character concept."The section on social interaction and roleplay talks about the player determining the character's thoughts feelings and actions.Alignment is a description, not a proscription.5e is full of ambiguity and vagueness, it is very open to doing things in a variety of different playstyle modes. Lots of it is consistent with multiple ways of doing things.I think it is important to remember that consistent with RAW does not mean the only way to do things RAW, particularly when discussing playstyle.</blockquote>