Before Dungeons and Dragons was an amusing time waster for nerds, the cooperative board game was a lightning rod for controversy. It let players engage with an imaginative world in which many made-up ...

How do you keep track of what page you’re on in a book? The answer tells you everything you need to know about the moral lens through which you view the world. At least, that’s according to a chart ...

Ever since I got big into RPGs I’ve been obsessed with character alignment charts. I even bought one of those cool CritSuccess die rings that determines alignments at random. Alignment is a way to ...

Demaris is a reader, writer, and gamer from Juneau, Alaska. She has been writing about games, movies, and other pop culture phenomena since 2015. Demaris has a particular fondness for fantasy and ...

Aden Carter is a contributor for XDA with a focus on gaming. He has spent the last five years guiding players through their favorite games and offering his opinions on the biggest gaming topics. When ...

In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, players use alignment charts to inform their characters’ backstories and personas. A Lawful, Good character acts benevolently and predictably, ...

The moral alignment chart is based on your own internal compass of what constitutes right versus wrong and how far you would go for something that you truly believe in. Where you fall on this chart ...

Mike White’s acclaimed HBO show, The White Lotus Season 3, has ended, prompting a conversation among viewers about the characters’ alignment chart. For the uninitiated, an alignment chart (popularized ...

"Alignment charts" began life as a standardized way to describe a character's general moral disposition in role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Where does this person (or elf or orc or whatever ...