The Battle of All Alignments

[Gansk]

I am hosting a forum here on ENWorld called the Battle of All Alignments, where I will have the monsters of D&D fight it out to see which alignment is the best!

I have done this exercise before in previous editions - first it was called the Battle of Good & Evil, where Bahamut stepped forward and saved the day for Good. The battle included the monsters from the original 1e AD&D Monster Manual.

When the original Fiend Folio came out, I organized the 1st Battle of All Alignments, and Lawful Evil cleaned up. I remember the Imps were nearly invincible, since I was ranking everything by HD and the lower HD creatures needed magic weapons to hit a devil in those days.

When the original Monster Manual II came out, we tried it again. This time it came down to the wire between Lawful Evil and Neutral Evil, and Lawful Evil won again.

Now there are so many monsters that I will need your help to conduct this battle, so I set up this forum. The link is in my sig. If you don't want your favorite monster embarrassed in the battle, it is your duty to make sure it fights to the best of its abilities!

Of course I wanted to include the monsters in the Creature Catalogue as well, as I want to thank Boz for maintaining the website and this forum.

 

[Krishnath]

LE will win again. Because LE pwns.

 

[Shade]

I'm surprised Chaotic Evil didn't win. By sheer numbers alone, CE rules the roost.

 

[Krishnath]

I'm surprised Chaotic Evil didn't win. By sheer numbers alone, CE rules the roost.

That's just because they've never faced me. *evil grin*

 

[BOZ]

I'm surprised Chaotic Evil didn't win. By sheer numbers alone, CE rules the roost.

it's total power you need, not numbers.

 

[Shade]

Bah! CE rules in power as well (present company excluded). I'll take a balor over a pit fiend any day.

Now, if it weren't a stat battle, I'd put my money on NE. The yugoloths reign supreme. Of course, thanks to their watered-down 3E stats, and the fact that you can't quantify the depths of their malevolence, they'd never win in this case.

 

[Gansk]

I think last time it came down to an ultraloth vs. the LE representative (pit fiend or ancient red dragon, can't remember exactly).

 

[Shade]

Ahh, but red dragons are CE.

I can't imagine an unadvanced ultroloth getting very far at all nowadays.

 

[Gansk]

Oops, must have been a pit fiend then. At that level, whoever wins initiative is usually victorious.

 

[Gansk]

We're well along in our progress (up to CR 8 monsters in some arenas), but we are still looking for players. Lawful Good and Chaotic Evil are without permanent representatives.

We have introduced a version of the Battle called the Tournament of Champions, where the outside alignments fight each other in a three round single elimination tournament. Players are welcome to join the Tournament and not the main Battle if they wish.

The Battle gives you a good opportunity to playtest the Creature Catalog monsters. After playing with some of them, I would suggest that their write-up needs more clarification. For example, the ingundi is a CR 2 creature that can potentially shapechange into anything the way it is written. That is way too powerful for CR 2 and doesn't seem to fit the designer's intent.