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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8038558" data-attributes="member: 22779">Your players are not allowed to interpret alignment?  They never argue with your interpretations?  That must be a nice change.It was in 3e that I realized that I didn't need alignment in the game.I had a player who informed me that his new character was Chaotic Neutral.  Some warning bells went off in my head, but, I grudgingly said it was okay so long as the player was going to act in good faith.  No Chaotic Stupid please.  Fair enough and the campaign went ahead.  About four or five levels later, I was talking to the player and mentioned that his character wasn't actually Chaotic Neutral.Player:  Oh, yes I am.  I am 100% chaotic neutral.Me:  But, your character is completely trustworthy, never acts impulsively, always cares about others, and has never actually done anything chaotic in any of our adventures.Player:  My character is 100% chaotic neutral.Me:  How?  In what way is this character CN?Player:  I just choose to be this way.  I don't have to be.Me:  Buh?  That's not how this works.  If your character chooses to act Lawful Good and never does anything other than act 100% Lawful Good, then, well, the character is Lawful Good.Player:  Absolutely not!  My character is CN.And then it hit me.  The player didn't give a damn about the character's alignment.  He just wanted to protect his character the DM (me) so that I could never turn to him and tell him that his character wouldn't (or would) do X because of his alignment.  Had nothing whatsoever to do with the actual alignment of the character.  That I wouldn't do that didn't matter the player.  Come Hell or high water, he was not going to give me anything like a lever over his character.From that point on, I don't even bother asking player's what alignment their character's are.  I have no idea.  It's their character.  They know better than me how to play their characters.  So, to me, alignment hasn't been part of D&D for a very, very long time.</blockquote>

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