"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 ...

The Fallout game series was one of the pioneers of GenX and Millennial storytelling. When creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky created a post-apocalyptic vision of human civilization gone awry (but ...

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 ...

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 ...

The alignment chart, borrowed from the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, is a common way of classifying different characters or situations along axes of good and evil, law and chaos. Many ...

The popular tabletop game, Dungeons & Dragons (also known as D&D), introduced the concept of moral alignments as a simple way to explain a character's personality. Though there are many versions of ...

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, ...