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<blockquote data-quote="Thunder Brother" data-source="post: 8330873" data-attributes="member: 6984475">See that's my problem with this whole argument surrounding alignment. You and other posters are essentially treating it as some mystery that the rest of us simply aren't enlightened to, while to me it's all smoke and mirrors.For example, I look through a list of Chaotic Evil monsters on DnDBeyond, and I get demons, orcs, lamias, undead, dragons, and a bunch of other monsters. Alignment, by itself, tells me very little about these monsters and what makes them tick besides &quot;very aggressive and dangerous&quot;. And that's so very little to work with. But you know what tells me a whole lot more about these monsters? Almost anything else on their stat block or description.Because an orc and a lamia are both CE, and if I run them based on only their alignment they will play basically the same. But they shouldn't, because there are all these other hooks and prompts to work off of that are simply more revealing. So alignment, by itself adds little to running a monster (or NPC), especially if you're comparing two distinct monsters within the same alignment.But if alignment works for you, cool, keep on keeping on. Just don't act as if the rest of us simply don't get it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thunder Brother, post: 8330873, member: 6984475"] See that's my problem with this whole argument surrounding alignment. You and other posters are essentially treating it as some mystery that the rest of us simply aren't enlightened to, while to me it's all smoke and mirrors. For example, I look through a list of Chaotic Evil monsters on DnDBeyond, and I get demons, orcs, lamias, undead, dragons, and a bunch of other monsters. Alignment, by itself, tells me very little about these monsters and what makes them tick besides "very aggressive and dangerous". And that's so very little to work with. But you know what tells me a whole lot more about these monsters? Almost anything else on their stat block or description. Because an orc and a lamia are both CE, and if I run them based on only their alignment they will play basically the same. But they shouldn't, because there are all these other hooks and prompts to work off of that are simply more revealing. So alignment, by itself adds little to running a monster (or NPC), especially if you're comparing two distinct monsters within the same alignment. But if alignment works for you, cool, keep on keeping on. Just don't act as if the rest of us simply don't get it. [/QUOTE]

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