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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8032270" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I admit I am far from perfect.  One of the big points of these threads is that people perceive things differently.  In addition sarcasm, tone and intent doesn't always come through.So I freely, and repeatedly, admit that sometimes I get a bit oversensitive.  I've been lumped in with people that are whiny toddlers, senile old men, racists (there have been posts that were explicit about it) and complainers.  It's kind of gotten to me.But I also think that saying a campaign where orcs are evil by nature is racist is extreme.  I think that stating having an imaginary creature that could be inherently evil by nature or supernatural means is racist is just a backhanded way of saying anyone who thinks that is racist.  Some of the depiction and wording around orcs is, IMHO, a separate issue.So tell you what.  I'll stop making the complaint when people stop justifying their opinion by labeling people with differences of opinions in terms of racism, degenerates, senile, toddlers, regressives.  Well, actually I'll stop the complaint anyway.But as far as the actual point of the initial article, they're just emphasizing what is already there.  Alignment is only as important as you make it.  I think that's a good thing.  Ignore it, use it as a quick handle for creatures that only appear briefly as part of the story, use it as a strict guideline if you want.There have been posters that think that alignment should be removed completely.  We know that in the next adventure the three kobolds in a trench coat will not have an alignment entry at all.  If that is the direction they're going and if they are eliminating alignment from the game I personally think it would be a mistake.My preference would be to have more emphasis on alignment being optional, that the alignment associated to a monster being the default emphasized more than a paragraph in the intro of the MM and so on.The issues that D&D face and have always faced are complex.  We have moved into a new era of popularity and opinions that are critical of the game (rightfully or not) are often blown up because news feeds thrive on controversy.  Something is popular?  There has to be something wrong!If you remove everything that could be potentially offensive to someone somewhere there won't be much fluff left to the game.  I just hope WOTC finds a happy medium.</blockquote>

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