I feel like alignment hasn’t really been a thing in DND for more than a decade, but there’s a steady supply of people who only “know” DND from memes keeping the idea alive.
I mean, have fun with it, but it’s very “how do you do fellow kids” sometimes.
It heavily relies on the players actually being consistent with their characterization. I don’t think I’m being controversial when I say that’s being generous to the players which make memes about alignment.
WotC has all but removed it from 5e14, it’s functionally useless. But they seem afraid to remove it altogether. They even went so far as to take the obvious (and stupid) backlash for not having orcs be “always evil” any more, instead of just silently removing the alignment line from everything in 5e24.
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I feel like alignment hasn’t really been a thing in DND for more than a decade, but there’s a steady supply of people who only “know” DND from memes keeping the idea alive.
I mean, have fun with it, but it’s very “how do you do fellow kids” sometimes.
plenty of folks are playing old editions or clones thereof now though
It heavily relies on the players actually being consistent with their characterization. I don’t think I’m being controversial when I say that’s being generous to the players which make memes about alignment.
WotC has all but removed it from 5e14, it’s functionally useless. But they seem afraid to remove it altogether. They even went so far as to take the obvious (and stupid) backlash for not having orcs be “always evil” any more, instead of just silently removing the alignment line from everything in 5e24.