How does alignment fucking work in D&D ?
So imagine there's a healing god and it says that all life is precious, you have to do all you can to help other people, you should never never harm anything and if you somehow end up in a kill or be killed situation, you should just suck it up and martyr yourself up. How would describe its alignment ? LG ?
>How does alignment fucking work in D&D ?
Poorly
>How does alignment fucking work in D&D ?
It doesn't.
>How would describe its alignment ?
True Stupid.
Just like spaces before punctuation.
It works if you don't think about it.
Though, the largest mistake people make with alignment is to base their actions off alignment, not their alignment off of actions.
>It works if you don't think about it.
That seems sadly right.
>So imagine
No.
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There is only lawful and chaotic.
Good is "takes risks or otherwise goes out of the way to help people."
Evil is "takes risks or otherwise goes out of the way to hurt people."
Massive generalization, but I see alignments in D&D as a matter of extremes. The vast majority of people should be true neutral simply because their views and behavior are not that extreme. They might help or hurt someone if it's convenient, they might follow rules or break them (even personal ones) depending on what's convenient. To be Good or Evil, Lawful or Chaotic, you have to do things when it's inconvenient or dangerous to do so, and do these in extremes.
That, and Alignments are more of a description of general behavior. A single act can't really be of any particular alignment, unless it triggers a change in your overall behavior. You have to keep doing it to become a certain alignment.
That's how I see it, anyway.
100% correct. If you're using it correctly you don't even realize you're using it at all.