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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 2114468" data-attributes="member: 9952">This whole 'totally-freewilled' argument is pretty frail.We have throughout the MM(s) a heap of creatures with impressive mental scores that are "usually" or "always" evil. If we look at the PHB, every alignment is "the best" or "the most dangerous" implying that no one alignment has an intellectual superiority over the others in it's own right. They can be as simplistic or complicated as the possessing creature articulates their alignment but the creature is well served by holding their alignment (at least until their behaviour gets them killed). Yet then why do these creatures favour a particular alignment over the more standard spread of 9 (and sometimes the creature is solitary!)? Even in the PHB we have Dwarves being LG while the PC dwarf can be whatever alignment without any consequences of being different. This tells me that _players_ are given free will with their characters but the rest of the world is about 50/50 (+/-) predetermined alignment.</blockquote>