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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8288325" data-attributes="member: 7006">Absolutely.&nbsp; Since I assumed the poll was asking about what the future of alignment should be... the removal of a hard alignment in a monster statblock or race description would go hand-in-hand with a re-write of the descriptions as well... giving several different standards identities.&nbsp; Thus making clear that for instance for both drow and orcs that it is just the &quot;weird&quot; ones of the race that become &quot;good&quot; (while the standard rest of the default race is evil)... but rather that different groups of orcs might be good or evil depending on the gods they follow or what their intentions/desires are.If we want to suggest that extra-planar creatures lean towards law/chaos/good/evil (or some combination) because of the planes they are found... that'll probably be fine.&nbsp; But any creature native to the prime plane that has intelligence and consciousness can go in any particular moral direction and the descriptions of said creatures should make that plain.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8288325, member: 7006"] Absolutely. Since I assumed the poll was asking about what the future of alignment should be... the removal of a hard alignment in a monster statblock or race description would go hand-in-hand with a re-write of the descriptions as well... giving several different standards identities. Thus making clear that for instance for both drow and orcs that it is just the "weird" ones of the race that become "good" (while the standard rest of the default race is evil)... but rather that different groups of orcs might be good [I]or[/I] evil depending on the gods they follow or what their intentions/desires are. If we want to suggest that extra-planar creatures lean towards law/chaos/good/evil (or some combination) because of the planes they are found... that'll probably be fine. But any creature native to the prime plane that has intelligence and consciousness can go in any particular moral direction and the descriptions of said creatures should make that plain. [/QUOTE]

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