“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 ...

Alignment charts are easy to customize, and they have a crisp legibility. They spread easily because they clash with other people’s instincts: I get viscerally angry looking at an absolutely ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Canadian university student Julia Burnham created the chart, which has gone viral on Twitter with more than 45,000 shares, based on the alignment system from role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.