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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8330121" data-attributes="member: 87792">The only 5e module I have (Strahd) uses two words in the statblocks.I understand the concept of using two letters. I also understand why 5e has chosen not to do this. Two letters is not common practice as far as I'm aware and hasn't been for a long time. Also if you have a section marked &quot;alignment&quot;, which 5e statblocks do not, then it's not two letters - it's one word and two letters.Without getting too deep into politics for this board there are certain (mostly religious) groups I have extreme disagreements with over the nature of what good is, and this isn't limited to fringe groups like Westboro Baptist. I can't think of any groups I have such obvious disagreements with over words like &quot;Xenophobic&quot;.If you are calling one group good and another evil this is almost always a political stance, and one that will not be agreed with by a substantial group of players. See [USER=42856]@Galandris[/USER] and <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-problem-with-evil-or-what-if-we-dont-use-alignments.681085/page-25#post-8329739" target="_blank">his post on orcs and quaggoths earlier</a>.It's a starting point. There are much much better starting points than &quot;This group is good, that group is evil and all people can be divided into nine categories&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8330121, member: 87792"] The only 5e module I have (Strahd) uses two words in the statblocks. I understand the [I]concept[/I] of using two letters. I also understand why 5e has chosen not to do this. Two letters is not common practice as far as I'm aware and hasn't been for a long time. Also if you have a section marked "alignment", which 5e statblocks do not, then it's not two letters - it's one word and two letters. Without getting too deep into politics for this board there are certain (mostly religious) groups I have extreme disagreements with over the nature of what good is, and this isn't limited to fringe groups like Westboro Baptist. I can't think of any groups I have such obvious disagreements with over words like "Xenophobic". If you are calling one group good and another evil this is almost always a political stance, and one that will not be agreed with by a substantial group of players. See [USER=42856]@Galandris[/USER] and [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-problem-with-evil-or-what-if-we-dont-use-alignments.681085/page-25#post-8329739']his post on orcs and quaggoths earlier[/URL]. It's a starting point. There are much [I]much[/I] better starting points than "This group is good, that group is evil and all people can be divided into nine categories". [/QUOTE]

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