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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 8037631" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Demons care because they actively want to tear down the order of the multiverse. If the devils didn't exist, they'd still be trying to do that. Yugoloths would not and are not.I don't know enough about spirit naga lore to comment on them specifically. But it's no surprise that a material creature wouldn't have an opinion on an extraplanar conflict. Alignment isn't just a descriptor of whose flag you wave at the Great Wheel Olympics. What the chaotic evil descriptor tells me about spirit naga is not that they're Team Demon. It tells me that they act in ways which tend to increase the level of chaos around them; they resent rules and order and resist their imposition; and, accordingly, they are prone to conflict with whatever lawful evil neighbors they may have. If they are brought into alliance or submission with some greater power, they are likely to be unpredictable and possibly disloyal.That's the value alignment has for me: it's a convenient starting point for setting up conflicts that all resonate with a common general theme of good vs. evil and law vs. chaos. If it doesn't do that for you, if perhaps your campaign doesn't spotlight those themes, cool, you do you, I'm not trying to convince you that you have to use alignment. What I am trying to do is help you understand why others use it. As a first step: if you think you see an inconsistency but it obviously doesn't bother us, don't fixate on it as an problem but instead ask whether it might only seem like a problem to you because you have misunderstood something. E.g. this "spirit nagas aren't rooting for the demons" thing."Yugoloths are apathetic" != "All neutral evil creatures are apathetic". That said, apathy does happen to be very much a part of the yuan-ti's schtick as well.</blockquote>

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