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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9124133" data-attributes="member: 52734">I'm fine with deities being given alignment.   Alignment is an overall descriptor that, to me, gives me an aid to determine how someone might react to an off-hand situation.  The problem often is that when people or designers view EVERY SINGLE action through that single lens to determine alignment instead of looking at the overall whole.  Read the stories if you want more nuance and there will be more interaction between deities and mortals, but for the majority of cases for clerics, paladins & the like just having the deities alignment is sufficient to guide play.Alignment isn't the best tool for doing characterization in shorthand, and so many games get along without it.   But it's a D&D tool, and I would be very unhappy if it was ditched.</blockquote>