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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 8027734" data-attributes="member: 32740">Oh no, I agree that it should be messed with, because they clearly still haven't got it right.  But I feel I can just about guarantee they still don't have a solid idea what it is they actually want alignment to do, much less how to have it accomplish that - and WITHOUT everybody being able to come up with their own personal interpretations of what individual alignments mean in terms of what character behaviors they allow and don't allow.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":LOL:" title="Laugh    :LOL:"  data-smilie="17"data-shortname=":LOL:" />  Hardly genius.  The one really good thing they did with alignment in 3E (IMO) is to categorize it as description (like gender, age, height and weight, or choice of deity), but they had no more idea what they really wanted it to do or not do within the game than anyone had previously.  It was just another sacred cow that they couldn't mess with.  The fact that arguments about alignment slowed down not one whit makes it obvious they failed to really address it as it needed to be addressed.</blockquote>