Yes, and that’s why there are so many in-person arguments about alignments. Too many groups that I’ve been in have socially enforced thinking about character actions, especially involving the stereotypical party-conflict-initiator, also known as the paladin. At least for the most part the hobby enjoyers have gotten away from the “you’re lawful, so you have to follow the laws even when you’re in an eeeeevil society!” thinking. It had gotten so bad that the game developers actually addressed it in one of the 3.5 splatbooks. Tome of exalted deeds, I think.

It also doesn’t help that the game designers go back and forth about it as well. Reading any of gygax’s diatribes about alignment just leads to conflicting statements and mental damage.

Because the idea of lawful/chaotic NOW draws from the dnd heritage, which has watered down the concepts to ‘follows laws’ and ‘breaks laws’ and sadly, most of these pictured assholes ‘follow’ the laws because their kind got to write the laws. Trump is basically the only exception, and is also basically the only one who is questionably a billionaire.

Huh. I actually haven’t seen any mention of that since the community for reporting it / sympathizing/fantasizing about it shut down. Are people still getting them?

The biggest problem with d&d axes is that people try to pick an alignment and then have their character’s actions come from it (and the resulting frequently induced cross-table talk with the eye-rolling phrase “a lawful/neutral/chaotic good/neutral/evil character wouldn’t do that! You’re X/Y, so you wouldn’t do that!”).

No real person has every action fall within one of the outlying boxes’ bounds. Actually ‘moving’ yourself from the neutral spot is (supposed to be) beyond most mortals.

A throwback to a series of books that (almost) no one talking about the D&D alignment axes (the axes came from the ideas of the books) knows of anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melniboné There are actual gods/forces of law and chaos.

It’s why he’s not a billionaire. Zing!

Why the fuck would I take the cup out of my room, mom/dad/insert-authoritarian-asshole-here? I’m drinking from it, goddamnit.

Holy shit, what the fuck? I think I read one edding’s book and didn’t think much of it, but what the fuck?! Where’s my interrobang button!?

OOh, I know at least one of these! (thanks, vet friend! or maybe not…)

Horses are vascular, like us, while cows have a bone that shoots out!

I’m not sure about you, either, because I can go from 1,2,3 all the way until I get boned.