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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8286479" data-attributes="member: 27957">And really, what even is alignment? It started out as a copypaste from Moorecock of the cosmic forces of Law and Chaos and the people who tried to balance in between. Being Lawful meant you were aligned with Team Law, had common ground with other people and factions in Team Law, and even had your own secret Team Law code phrases (aka alignment tongue) you could use to identify and trade messages with other people on Team Law. It was really about what side of the cosmic struggle you fought for.We've come a long way since then. The introduction of a Good vs Evil axis majorly confused things. The importance of Law and Chaos has heavily faded into the background. There's no more alignment tongues, alignment doesn't mean which cosmic faction you're aligned with anymore, and honestly it mostly gets used for Internet meme charts more than it does any beneficial game purpose. It's a vestige that does no real good and, in some people's hands, an appreciable amount of harm as it's applied to justify inborn moralistic evaluations. That some people are "born evil" and it's okay to kill them on sight and murder their children.All that's left to justify alignment is that it's a concise personality test result, and that fails too because if you ask three people to define the difference between LG and CG you'll get six different answers. As Whizbang points out, if you want a concise personality summery for an important NPC it's better to have an Ideal/Bond/Flaw chart for them. Just putting LE on there doesn't give any really useful information.</blockquote>

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