Thursday, 19 June 2025

Alignment Keywords





































Been reading Adam Eterno comic reprints from UK A 16th c alchemist aprentice who stole immortality and cursed. Only gold can hurt him (it turns up lots). In 70s he was hit by a gold-plated limo and now he floats the time streams turning up to beat up bad ppl. Early on he was trying to die but eventually he decides to go with it and just enjoy beating up bad ppl through time and space. Like a wizened old man brawler who talks in a ye olde manner. Like dr who crossed with iggy pop and highlander but surly, bitter and fatalistic. From brit boy comic weekly mags: Thunder, Lion, Valiant for 6 years now in 2 new books.

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So D&D5 has keywords based on attributes to describe your character.

But alignment needs this even more especially for the DM.
You could use these to avoid mentioning alignment in games.
They also help define alignment but you could use instead of alignment if you don't like it.
You could use to imply alignment and not be obvious.

I make alignment a bigger feature than most D&D games and clones and you can make oaths of fanaticism that have resulted in player vs player TPK campaign ending moments.

d20

LAW

CHAOS

GOOD

EVIL

1

Adamant

Contrarian

Altruistic

Abusive

2

Consistant

Erratic

Benevolent

Bitter

3

Constant

Fickle

Benign

Brutal

4

Conventional

Flexible

Caring

Callous

5

Discaplined

Flippant

Charitable

Cruel

6

Dutiful

Impetuous

Compasionate

Fiendish

7

Fatalistic

Impulsive

Considerate

Greedy

8

Formal

Indecisive

Fair

Harsh

9

Honourable

Mercurial

Friendly

Hateful

10

Legalistic

Rebellious

Generous

Heartless

11

Methodical

Rowdy

Hospitable

Mean

12

Officious

Undiscaplined

Human

Nasty

13

Ordered

Unfixed

Kind

Perverse

14

Precise

Unpredictable

Loving

Ruthless

15

Predictable

Unruly

Magnanimous

Sadistic

16

Proper

Vacillating

Merciful

Selfish

17

Rigid

Variable

Nice

Spiteful

18

Serious

Volatile

Openhanded

Tyranical

19

Systemic

Wild

Philanthropic

Uncaring

20

Uncompramising

Willful

Protective

Viscious

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