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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8327817" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I give a brief overview of how I view alignment in my session 0.&nbsp; Beyond that?&nbsp; I don't care if anyone follows a specific alignment or not.&nbsp; It's a guide for me as a DM, the players never know the alignments of NPCs or monsters.&nbsp; It's useful when I run a character.&nbsp; It's not a straightjacket, there is no penalty for not following your alignment (which we always ignored).&nbsp; Other than my broad no evil rule, I make no restrictions or judgements, I don't know or care what my PC's alignments are.Therefore outside of a broad &quot;don't do evil stuff, don't be a dick&quot;, it doesn't matter what individuals think of alignment. If someone does something I would consider evil I'll warn the player.&nbsp; Which is the issue I have with people saying we should get rid of it.&nbsp; There is no &quot;wrong&quot; way to run a specific alignment, I would just hope that people who do use it are reasonably consistent with in it's application.&nbsp; Despite what haters claim I find that most people are in the same ballpark in their interpretation of alignment.As far as elves, I view them as a communal democracy.&nbsp; They may have kings and queens, but they only seem permanent from a human short-term perspective.&nbsp; I would peg a lot of depictions of elves as NG or even just straight up neutral.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8327817, member: 6801845"] I give a brief overview of how I view alignment in my session 0. Beyond that? I don't care if anyone follows a specific alignment or not. It's a guide for me as a DM, the players never know the alignments of NPCs or monsters. It's useful when I run a character. It's [I]not[/I] a straightjacket, there is no penalty for not following your alignment (which we always ignored). Other than my broad no evil rule, I make no restrictions or judgements, I don't know or care what my PC's alignments are. Therefore outside of a broad "don't do evil stuff, don't be a dick", it doesn't matter what individuals think of alignment. If someone does something I would consider evil I'll warn the player. Which is the issue I have with people saying we should get rid of it. There is no "wrong" way to run a specific alignment, I would just hope that people who do use it are reasonably consistent with in it's application. Despite what haters claim I find that most people are in the same ballpark in their interpretation of alignment. As far as elves, I view them as a communal democracy. They may have kings and queens, but they only seem permanent from a human short-term perspective. I would peg a lot of depictions of elves as NG or even just straight up neutral. [/QUOTE]

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