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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9527724" data-attributes="member: 7035894">The alignment system is absolute nonsense when it comes to describing a personality. I mean, that's just obvious. It's basically worthless as anything but the most superficial role playing aid, but something is (slightly) better than nothing, I suppose.It becomes interesting if you want to give it teeth and prescribe specific behaviours as part of a cosmic struggle between literal teams, which is what D&amp;D kinda sorta tried to do in a half-assed way. But that is antithetical to letting players RP their characters in ways that make sense to them, and most people are not interested in RPing a strict, Moorcock-inspired setting.Alignment basically survives as a weird vestige of D&amp;D's past that the game doesn't need and works better without, but a lot of tables keep for nostalgia's sake while paying lip-service to their interpretation of what it means. I've never bothered with it - even as kids we just wrote an alignment on our character sheets because the rules said to, but otherwise ignored it and played our characters as made sense to us (so basically as Tolkien rip-offs).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9527724, member: 7035894"] The alignment system is absolute nonsense when it comes to describing a personality. I mean, that's just obvious. It's basically worthless as anything but the most superficial role playing aid, but something is (slightly) better than nothing, I suppose. It becomes interesting if you want to give it teeth and prescribe specific behaviours as part of a cosmic struggle between literal teams, which is what D&D kinda sorta tried to do in a half-assed way. But that is antithetical to letting players RP their characters in ways that make sense to them, and most people are not interested in RPing a strict, Moorcock-inspired setting. Alignment basically survives as a weird vestige of D&D's past that the game doesn't need and works better without, but a lot of tables keep for nostalgia's sake while paying lip-service to their interpretation of what it means. I've never bothered with it - even as kids we just wrote an alignment on our character sheets because the rules said to, but otherwise ignored it and played our characters as made sense to us (so basically as Tolkien rip-offs). [/QUOTE]

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