subtooty, about D&D alignments
The way I want to do it; alignment exists and nearly everyone’s neutral. Dwarves, gnolls, humans, etc are all basically okay people until they get pissed off, want something, or are culturally blind.
Evil and good are reserved for demons, unicorns, rakshasas, stuff so completely unworldly they don’t work by normal standards, and a few outliers like paladins or necromancers who choose to be really unusual (and their rewards and penalties are player or DM widgets).
subtooty, about D&D alignments
@Leucrotta Spouse has been running a 5th Edition game set in Ravnika, the M:tG city-plane, and instead of alignments we use color affinities--which don't have "good" or "evil" connotations, but reflect a character's beliefs and personality. it gives a very interesting spin on the concept of "alignments," and lets the GM play with some fun different mechanics!
subtooty, about D&D alignments
@green @Leucrotta that is a phenomenally good idea
subtooty, about D&D alignments
@green @Leucrotta Oh wow, that's pretty sweet. :D
subtooty, about D&D alignments
@green oh COOOOOOOL!
subtooty, about D&D alignments
@Leucrotta there's actually a lot of stuff about it (well, some) online, which we cribbed from heavily, but it seems like it'd be easily adaptable into any gaming system, and makes a really fun, *interesting* replacement for alignment systems. XD
subtooty, about D&D alignments
Like if it were my game I’d want three alignment related splat books; a forces of evil thing which would be largely intended for DMs, a much smaller good book which would be vaguely a player resource, and the biggest would be a general all purpose adventurer book (vaguely like Xanathar’s Guide or all the awesome 3e class splat books).