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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 8684979" data-attributes="member: 7034710">I think these are all good ideas, I really like alignment conceptually and what could be done with it but I don’t deny it causes issues, the main problem is rooted in when people start trying to get relativistic with their interpretations of morality and order/chaos rather than the game giving us proper solid meta-definitions where it lays down the law and says ‘good is good and these are the traits that define someone as good in universe for the use of this game, no arguing.’EDIT: yes, you might have grown up in a treacherous backstabbing bandit town where everyone is Evil, but saying ‘well this is what I consider good because of that’ is not an argument, the cosmic definition of Good and Evil persist and your upbringing doesn’t morally justify stabbing that old man.Alignment based encounter and event tables are something I really like as an idea, if you have certain alignments in your party or have been a big nuisance to aligned entities then you’ll be finding your enemies sending their forces to mess with you, or the side that likes you might drop a little something nice your way.I also think it would be nice if alignment got you something, just out of the gate for being that alignment, a specific spell or feat or resistance or proficiency or a familiar option or something:‘you are Chaotic, you can pick [appropriate number] of the following features:You can cast charm person PB/LR times,You are proficient with hand crossbows,Add PBd4 damage whenever you deal psychic damage,You have resistance to lightning damageEct, ect, ect...’Staying loyal to an alignment would gain you more boons, if you swapped maybe loose one temporarily and have to repick the others from your new alignment’s options, if you were repeatedly changing alignment it’d cause you to loose all your boons.</blockquote>

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