@horsefucker_thicc@monads.online
Post #2895653
2026-05-23 13:51 UTC
the ninefold d&d alignment system is kind of interesting in that in its original iteration it's really just an overcomplicated system for determining which sentient beings it's okay to murder (hence all the 'always chaotic evil' beasties. it's a racial classification scheme) but because the terms it uses are so loaded, generations of people have been tricked into believing it must mean something and have produced reams and reams of nonsense trying to define it
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@horsefucker_thicc@monads.online 2026-05-23 13:55
something of note here is that gygax hated the idea of inhabiting a role whilst playing as he believed it was female-coded (this is real. he said this). in his mode of ttrpg playing all 'alignment' is an arbitrary challenge for the player to fit their strategies into or the dm will punish them (via depriving them of their class powers etc)