Ep.26: Alignment
What alignment are you, and what does that mean? Does it drive your behavior? Does your character’s alignment drive theirs? We look at one of D&D’s most durable sacred cows: alignment as personality test, moral framework, table tool, campaign problem, and cosmology. Somehow, we try not to come to blows.
We want to hear how alignment plays into your games.
For more on the discussion of System and Style check out our written articles and Scott’s additional thoughts on specific systems on our YouTube channel.
Topics discussed:
00:00:22 What Alignment Are You?
00:07:45 Origins
00:20:40 Descriptive or Prescriptive
00:25:00 Character Dynamics
00:31:25 Ubiquitous Evil Campaign
00:43:00 In Other Games
00:52:20 Relativistic View
01:14:00 As Cosmology
01:35:50 Recap
01:50:15 Practical Approach
