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For questions primarily centered around ethical and moral alignments in game systems. Please note that questions about "what alignment is [person/act/society X]?" are off-topic due to subjectivity; see this FAQ for more details: https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5357/are-questions-about-alignment-on-topic
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Can an arcane caster freely adjust their alignment by using Summon Monster spells?
When you use a summoning spell to summon an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it is a spell of that type.
Says Summon Monster I.
Does that mean, if a wizard or ...
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In D&D, do the gods embodying various alignments *see* themselves as embodying and advocating for those alignments along their other interests?
Depictions of the gods of D&D (across game materials, novels, etc.) might be inconsistent, but as far as I can tell gods acknowledged in game books always get associated with an alignment, and ...
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Do spell-like abilities have descriptors?
Following this thread:
What rules say that summoning undead is evil, and what rules say why?
It talks about spells and ask the question if casting a spell with an evil descriptor is an evil act or not....
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Forced alignment changing effects in official published sources
What alignment changing effects are there (in official published sources)?
A good start seems to be in: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/74407/45342 where the focus is on changing the alignment to ...
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If a Dragonborn is affiliated with a particular dragon race, is it more likely to inherit that race's alignment?
I'm DMing for a homebrew quest with vanilla material, where the party is getting very close to a Dragonborn village. I haven't yet decided which dragon most of the village Dragonborn will be descended ...
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Is there any way to work around Familiar Alignment restrictions?
Is there any way to work around Familiar Alignment restrictions?
Examples:
LE Wizard wanting to get Faerie Dragon as a Familiar.
CG Wizard wanting to get Ratling as a Familiar.
Is there any way to ...
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Can a LG Cleric of Asmodeus summon a Bearded Devil?
A Cleric is alignment-restricted:
Alignment: A cleric's alignment must be within one step of her
deity's, along either the law/chaos axis or the good/evil axis (see
Additional Rules).
Asmodeus is a ...
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Can I have a Lawful Evil Paladin with his justification being its the word of his god? [closed]
I'm thinking of having a lawful evil Paladin whose reason for being evil is it is the word of his god.
Would this work?
Is this a good idea?
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Can a cleric cast spells from his domain if his allignment does not match the spell?
Can a cleric with say lawful neutral allignment cast a spell from one of his domains that has a good / evil / chaos disignator?
As the anwer below points out.
chaos vs law is a no go.
But in this case ...
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Are the powers of a Divine Soul sorcerer at the mercy of their deity's will?
The Divine Soul sorcerous origin in Xanathar's Guide to Everything description states:
Sometimes the spark of magic that fuels a sorcerer comes from a divine source that glimmers within the soul. ...
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Effects of Beyond Morality Mythic Universal Path Ability?
If an Erinyes (Devil) Wizard 12 (Banisher) / Archmage 4 (Mythic) with the 3rd Tier Universal Path Ability of "Beyond Morality" uses the spell "Magic Weapon, Greater (Mythic)" (...
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How can I convince evil characters to save the world?
I made a homebrew campaign with some friends and gave them a more or less summary of what was to be expected of it. When they turned in their characters, all of them were either neutral or evil.
If ...
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Is an angel's spellcasting alignment-dependent?
This question was prompted from a line towards the end of this answer:
Arcane spells, and the ability to use them, are not alignment dependent. The Planetar's spells, as they are innate to that ...
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Ilithid-like player character - best practices, inspirations?
Background:
I am starting to play a certainly chaotic, not necessarily evil (depending on your viewpoint) character, which is looking for a reason to go adventuring with a group of magic-using, but ...
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How does one play a Chaotic Evil character without disrupting the play group?
A follow-up question to How to deal with a PC trying to kill another?
As I understand the answer to that question, PCs killing one another is generally not the intended outcome of campaigns, and the ...
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