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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8286007" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Alignment already is practically nonexistent in 5e. Taking out 1-2 words from every stat block is by no means the same thing as me advocating for a Psion class, more Class Feature Variants, or a Customize Your Origin system. Those are mechanical, while alignment only has a handful of mechanics attached to it throughout the whole game.I don't remember those arguments. They may have been made, but I don't remember partaking in a discussion where those arguments were made (feel free to correct me if you can find an example of someone saying that when I was actively participating in that same discussion. A better example would be of me responding to someone saying that, if you can). I feel that Alignment has a negative impact on the game, primarily due to its oversimplification of a complicated topic. I feel that it doesn't have a place in most D&D campaigns, barring Planescape because it depends on alignment (I even championed to continue to include alignment in the game in Planescape material). I feel the same way about this that I feel about including the Piety system from Mythic Odysseys of Theros or the Survivor mechanics from Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft in other campaigns that don't take place in those settings. Include alignment in Planescape, but not by default outside of it. Include the Piety system in Theros, but not by default outside of it. Include Survivors in Ravenloft, but not by default in other campaign settings. It's one thing to include Class Feature Variants or Customize Your Origin mechanics in an optional book (TCoE), and another to include alignment in every book that contains deities, racial stats, and/or monster stat blocks. One is systematic, alignment, and another is optional, CFVs/Customize-Your-Origin (or, at least, it Customize Your Origin was supposed to be optional. I never advocated for it to not be optional in 5e). I never advocated for anything to be pigeonholed in anything else or to take away the power of the DM to allow or disallow whatever content they want in their campaigns. I don't allow the official Kenku at my table, I don't allow Piety in my Eberron campaigns, and I don't allow Order of the Scribes Wizards at any of my campaigns. I have no idea what you're talking about for the "stepping on the toes of new material" or "skill checks", so I'm going to ignore that as I am certain I had no part in any discussion about that. Like I addressed above, alignment is different from Class Feature Variants, Customize Your Origin mechanics, and new subclasses. Any DM that doesn't want mechanics from Tasha's doesn't have to buy that book, but alignment was automatically a part of practically every D&D 5e book before Candlekeep Mysteries. I didn't advocate for the removal of alignment in 5e, I wanted that in a 5.5e/6e, but I'm not particularly upset that the direction shift came early. My reasons for disliking alignment are mainly because it's a pervasive system that was included in every D&D 5e book whether or not I wanted it. I couldn't just not buy the books with alignment included in it, because every book had alignment included. However, the people who don't want to use the content in Tasha's can just not buy/use Tasha's. It's a different situation. There's a difference between pulling out weeds sprinkled throughout a field and making a fence between an area containing all weeds and an area containing the field. Excuse me, but as I said above, I never advocated for this change. My being happy because of it didn't motivate WotC to make it, and I don't work for WotC and personally make this change. Stop attacking me over something I never did or advocated for. Sure, I don't like alignment. I have never hidden my dislike for it. However, I didn't ask for this, and it's not hypocritical for me to embrace a change that I like even if I didn't ask for it. If someone you know gives you ice cream without you asking, you eat the goddam ice cream. Are we done here, or must I move on from proving that I'm not a D&D-book-burner to not being a Hypocritical Alignment-Destroyer?</blockquote>

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