#like i just use it as a legalist/anarchist scale but some other definitions get really fucking esoteric really quick

[clitfisto]

ok i guess im posting my dnd opinions today. alignment as a system is so fickle and debated because the average ttrpg player is not somebody who is interested in philosophical theory, let alone an in-depth discussion of morality, so defining both the good/evil and chaotic/lawful spectrums is fucking difficult because NOBODY here is equipped to answer questions like "what is evil?" let alone "what makes a person Inherently Evil or Inherently Good", and the fact that the average dnd group would need to satisfactorily ANSWER those questions in order to rules-lawyer certain spells/items/abilities is absolutely fucking ridiculous

#and thats not even touching on how ridiculous lawful/chaotic is #like i just use it as a legalist/anarchist scale but some other definitions get really fucking esoteric really quick #the most common one ive seen is lawful means having a personal code you use to make decisions while chaotic means not doing that ig #but now youve defined it as having literally any ideology at all which. everything is ideological all the time always. #like am i lawful for being an anarchist? #its an internal code i follow so by popular definition it would make me lawful right? nvm that the code is a rejection of laws as authority #like it just makes no goddamn sense but thats what people come up with when they dont have the mental frameworks to actually discuss this #and someone notices that legality and morality are attached to 2 different axes even though authoritarian society says theyre the same thing #you get answers like ''well clearly lawful doesnt mean literally actually law-abiding because how could the law be evil?'' #its. why the fuck is something so subjective and conceptually advanced still a core mechanic of the worlds most popular ttrpg #it doesnt HELP except for establishing the bare bones of ''your character should have a personality and it should affect their choices''