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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8040182" data-attributes="member: 6801228">The issue with your assertion here is that it proves my point. If both claims are interpretations, and both claims are equally valid then alignment has told us nothing. To simplify this down, if I use a system to define something, and two people can equally validly, and equally correctly say that the system defines something as "P" and as "not-P" then the system is broken. And yet, people are defending the fact that this system is interpretive and offers a vast array of possible interpretations, as a fact that proves it is a useful tool for getting information. No one would use a Ph strip that couldn't tell the difference between a Base and an Acid, why are we using an alignment system that can't tell the difference between Chaos and Law?Right, I don't use those. And alignment-interacting spells have caused lots of problems in the past. See every story about Detect Evil being used on a rogue or murder suspect ever. Yuan-Ti run their own empire, they don't have more Lawful creatures in charge of them. And, their leaders are also statted as Neutral Evil. So to do that, you'd have to change the alignment, and if you are going to just change it to suit your whims anyways...Also Hag covens are very rarely organized by someone else, they are organized by the Hags. So again, you'd have to take one of the Hags, make them lawful instead of Neutral, and then make them the person in charge. And again, if you are just going to go in and change their alignment to match the story you want to tell, what was the purpose of giving them an alignment in the first place.I will give you Yugoloths though, since they have a guy, I think "The General of Ghehena" who is supposed to be in charge of all of them. And I don't know his statblock. Of course, Yugoloths are supposed to be the definitive Neutral Evil force in the universe, but they could have a Lawful Evil leader I suppose.</blockquote>

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