Episode 166 – Lawful Good (Alignments 1)

We’ve been promising it for a while and here it is, the first episode in our series on alignment. We last talked about alignments as a topic waaaaaayyyy back in episode 2 of the podcast (if you listen, we’re so sorry about the audio quality), and we figured it was high time we updated things and also let Jenny weigh in!

We start of with a shoutout to a couple of podcasts we’ve been enjoying; Grant has been listening to Pontifacts and Peter has been listening to Stats Will Roll. Our friends over at MegaDumbCast have also recently released an episode on autism representation in games (and how not to do it) that is worth a listen. In gaming news, Grant is porting his Vampire game over to a PbtA variant called Powered by Dark and his Sharn game has started up again. Peter’s new D&D game continues to go strong, and he mentions a great thing one of his players is doing that he loves. We also briefly mention some behind-the-scenes change we’re making. Our Patreon question this episode comes from Joseph Linardon who asks us ” If you could make a 1 page RPG, what would it be? What would be the main dice you use (if not a D20)?”

From there, we get into our main topic and argue about alignment like proper nerds for the rest of the episode, complete with fictional examples (some of which may actually be Neutral Good) and a lengthy amount of discussions about what Lawful Good is not. It gets a little heated in points, but we had fun and it was a good (and somewhat cathartic) discussion.

Also mentioned in this episode: https://www.amykathleenryan.com/books.php

Scripture: Psalm 119:12-16, Proverbs 24:30-32, Matthew 22:34-40