Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Yeah, we've got the whole orcs and evil controversy last year or the year before whenever it was and you know so people do are invested in that as a topic so whether you explicitly say it or don't for better or worse does matter because people do care whether you say it or not.

Yeah, we've got the whole orcs and evil controversy last year or the year before whenever it was and you know so people do are invested in that as a topic so whether you explicitly say it or don't for better or worse does matter because people do care whether you say it or not.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, Jeremy Crawford talked about neutral, actually, because neutral... It kind of used to be a stance rather than a lack of alignment. Like Druid would be neutral and it'd be like Switzerland. It would be like we are carefully balancing the good and the evil and not joining one side or the other. It's a deliberate choice and stance.

So, Jeremy Crawford talked about neutral, actually, because neutral... It kind of used to be a stance rather than a lack of alignment. Like Druid would be neutral and it'd be like Switzerland. It would be like we are carefully balancing the good and the evil and not joining one side or the other. It's a deliberate choice and stance.

Whereas neutral could also mean they don't have an alignment whatsoever. It's just they're unaligned.

Whereas neutral could also mean they don't have an alignment whatsoever. It's just they're unaligned.

So it's been different in different editions. Here, they're definitely going like that. Neutral basically means kind of whatever you want, really. But in the past, neutrality has been an actual alignment. Yeah. On the sort of moral axis, which is good to evil. Neutral was actually a thing that you chose to actually choose to be a manifest. Yeah.

So it's been different in different editions. Here, they're definitely going like that. Neutral basically means kind of whatever you want, really. But in the past, neutrality has been an actual alignment. Yeah. On the sort of moral axis, which is good to evil. Neutral was actually a thing that you chose to actually choose to be a manifest. Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying there. That's different to unaligned, I think. Unaligned means you don't have an alignment. Neutral means you do have an alignment and it is proactively neutral. You're going out of your way to be neutral.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying there. That's different to unaligned, I think. Unaligned means you don't have an alignment. Neutral means you do have an alignment and it is proactively neutral. You're going out of your way to be neutral.

But no, that's how it used to be, is what I'm saying. Now they're saying it kind of just means Well, I'll read the quote. How about that?

But no, that's how it used to be, is what I'm saying. Now they're saying it kind of just means Well, I'll read the quote. How about that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So Jeremy Crawford, he said this. So our humanoid creatures and stuff, it does still have a suggested alignment, but it's one that you never saw in 2014, neutral, because in the old days, neutral really just meant whatever. And so we've really embraced that.

So Jeremy Crawford, he said this. So our humanoid creatures and stuff, it does still have a suggested alignment, but it's one that you never saw in 2014, neutral, because in the old days, neutral really just meant whatever. And so we've really embraced that.

And we give you guidance in the new monster manual that when you see neutral, that is especially an invitation for you as a dungeon master to decide. So that's kind of what it's saying. I see. It's whatever alignment you want it to be. So that revenant, the haunting revenant there could be good. That's true.

And we give you guidance in the new monster manual that when you see neutral, that is especially an invitation for you as a dungeon master to decide. So that's kind of what it's saying. I see. It's whatever alignment you want it to be. So that revenant, the haunting revenant there could be good. That's true.