What would happen if you reversed all the alignments for all the creatures in the Monster manual?

[MarkB]

In general terms if you took a standard D&D campaign world and reversed all the alignments of every creature in this world, what would it look like?

It would look the way the monsters see it all the time.

 

[Celebrim]

[MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION]
What if we removed the association between “light” and “good?”

In this world it would have to. The problem that I was trying to elucidate (see it there), was that I'm not sure that this association is as tenuous as all that. I'm not sure you can remove the association.

Even if you try to start with a world reversed, it doesn't feel like it can last. Vampires are good aligned? Surely they'd have to stop feasting, stop polluting, stop dominating. And vampires and every rotting corpse is now good? Is death a goodness? Can we align good with annihilation, claim an empty dead universe with night forever as a benefice? Can you just call everything that was woe weal, and it be so? Or, if you turn everything upside down, will it not be forced to turn with it? Is it all as arbitrary as a bunch of hats? At first it seems so, but the more you dig, the less it feels like you can animate every evil with a spirit of good, and every good with a spirit of evil, and escape very far from where you started.

 

[MNblockhead]

Am I the only one who wants to run a campaign in this dark, distopian world now?

Nope, I would love to play in or run it...but I'd want someone else to write it.

 

[Guest 6801328]

1. Kill all the evil monsters for being traitors.

2. Kill all the good creatures for their past crimes.

3. Take their stuff.

 

[Tonguez]

I could see an Egypt/Aztecs in the Underdark type set up - perhaps great cities of Lawful Good Orcs who willingly give up their blood to feed their chaotic Vampire/Lich/Mummy Overlords so that they can defend the Mother Dark from the evil forces of the Burning Sun. Death, Decay and Undeath (Immortality) are all viewed as positive aspects of the Mother Dark whereas Light is seen as harmful and healing blasphemous.

Put it on the surface of a tidally locked world where one side is always Dark, or perhaps one where ther sun only rises once every 10 months during the Reign of Fire