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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8286668" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Tell that to previous editions of D&D, where there's been multiple monsters that are just X, but with a different alignment (for instance, orcs, with their odonti and scro kin). And take a look at whant ImagineGod is saying: since there's no CE next to Relentless Killer, then "edgy DMs" are going to declare it LG. Clearly, he doesn't think that would happen if it had been given an alignment. Or for that matter, when you said that a LE Relentless Killer might belong to an assassin's guild and had strict rules, while a CE Relentless Killer just wants to see the world burn. The fact that you could think up two different options is good! It means that you have at least two different possible uses for a Relentless Killer even before you sat down and thought up a history and reason why someone became one. But would you have come up with with the assassin Killer if there had been a CE in the statblock? And how many other people would have? And if alignment is just a "baseline broad tool," what does it provide that all that description on each monster's page in the MM doesn't provide? More importantly, what does an alignment bring to the game, if it's just two characters, that a more in-depth and nuanced approach doesn't bring?Equipment is quite a bit different than a rule on what an entire race's moral and ethical outlook is.Also, everyone can agree on what a scimitar does, because it's there in the books. Considering there have been decades of arguments on alignment, there isn't a lot people can agree on as to what each alignment means.</blockquote>

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