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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 8027418" data-attributes="member: 32740">I am amused.  Only 40 years for anyone in charge of D&D to shake off being stunned into inactivity that alignment as presented in D&D rules for any version of D&D has ALWAYS sucked for one reason and another.  NO EXCEPTIONS.  I finally wrote out MY rules for alignment.  TSR and WotC proved absolutely incapable of making it work to MY satisfaction for 4 decades so there was no other choice.  Judging from the fact that alignment is probably still THE #1 argument-causing topic of discussion on any message board, I'm hardly the only one dissatisfied with the performance of supposedly professional game designers in this regard.  I have zero confidence they'll get it right this time - but will reserve actual judgement until I see it.I decided what I wanted from alignment for the games I ran as DM and wrote MY rules accordingly.  They've worked fine for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and I have every reason to suspect they're not a whit less applicable to any other edition.  Of course, I have personally had virtually no issues with alignment for decades now because even without more formal, written rules I knew that no version of alignment RAW has fit any game I ever ran or was a player in.  Only time I have issues with alignment is when OTHER people have issues with alignment RAW.</blockquote>