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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_Chance" data-source="post: 8037924" data-attributes="member: 55149">Pack is family in a sense. It's not like Gnolls are forming large social networks and building towns. They are a pack led by the strongest individual.Red Dragons build their lairs in solitary places... they have a treasure hoard to defend after all. They may devastate the area around their lair, but that's not quite what I'd call ruling as a king. Is 5E different? Silver Dragons have been known to live among humans iirc. As for Devils they want to advance in their hierarchy and lord it over other Devils. They aren't solitary / small group creatures. Hags, depends on the type iirc. I've never thought of them as LE myself, more NE and CE, but that's me. I don't have a problem with saying some creatures alignments have been mischaracterized or been moved all over the place in different editions (Orcs, for example).Alignment isn't supposed to stand alone. I'd say it's part of their "block", just not vestigial.Well, we differ on that. I see Mammon dangling greed as a lure, imo of course. Yugoloths are in it for the money or whatever they accept as payment.You cut out the alignment, you cut out information. You could cut out a lot more too. Given the minimal space alignment takes up I think it's worth keeping. A couple of words / letters yielding basic information.I imagined you'd know about Gnolls lack of breath weapons <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I was just pointing out that differences made for different tactics and behavior and descriptive text. The point of a political party label is, theoretically, to give you a baseline on what a politician believes. Like alignment. It doesn't define everything about them and they can differ. I understand the limitations of short descriptions. which is why you get the rest of the information. You can get rid of a lot of two word statements, or in some cases paragraphs, and still understand a creature. In the case of alignment it has a function, it provides baseline information and it's fairly economical in terms of space. So, why get rid of it? It's a tool, if a small one.Build on it. Correct the mistaken labelling. Improve on it. Let it help inform what you think about a creature. I have spent a lot of time in the last few decades building fluff and altering minor things to justify some of D&Ds odder quirks and creatures. I enjoy it. Just coming up with explanations for things and why they work the way they do in D&D is an interesting exercise. To me anyway, ymmv.I agree. Have a good one.</blockquote>

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