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.

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

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.

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