>>97900093
Biggest shocker for people is that it's objective morality, which is to say there's planes of existence in D&D that are governed by that alignment. People lean chaotic neutral, which is self interest, but unwillingness to do physical harm. Paladins are lawful good, which adheres to the letter of the law, and kills evil things, no half measures. True neutral doesn't exist, it's pretty much there as a free space on a bingo chart. The true morality struggle in D&D is not Good vs Evil, it's Chaotic vs Lawful, and the shades within that tend to pick a lane when pressed with dilemmas.

>>97900093
You can use Good, Evil, Neutrality, Chaos, and Order like voices in the head of PCs to force role-playing Disco Elysium style. You can also give bonuses and penalties depending on PC and NPC alignment in a social scene. Also...
>>97900146
> Biggest shocker for people is that it's objective morality, which is to say there's planes of existence in D&D that are governed by that alignment.
This.

>>97900146
The cosmically aligned morality isn't well-communicated in any of the newer books and despite treating Faerun/FR as the default intended setting for 5e, they haven't taken any steps to actually make that clear to players, which leads to them bringing in their own interpretations, because the book says shit like
>[alignments] broadly describes its moral and personal attitudes
And then later suggest that all that godly and planar-related alignment stuff is just myth and legend.

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>>97900093
>Redpillme on actually using the alignment chart.
Realize that the same alignment can be played differently by different people and that's okay, also all actions have consequences and some people will use alignments as an excuse to be a retard, please don't be a retard even if your alignment allows it.