Alignment

Your deeds, both good and bad, reflect back on your character's alignment.

During quests or while performing some downtime actions, should your character do something that the DM considers to be worthy of an alignment shift, the DM may adjust your alignment based on Good, Evil, Law, or Chaos. In rare cases, a DM may adjust alignment based off a roleplay interaction, if the situation calls for such.

Alignment also comes into play when putting together groups for T2+ quests. If the alignment of the combined characters creates a hostile party, the party roster will be adjusted. This is to prevent parties from being unable to work with one another.

Acts of Good

Raise your good/evil alignment score by the awarded amount.

Acts of Evil

Lower your good/evil alignment score by the awarded amount.

Acts of Law

Raise your law/chaos alignment score by the awarded amount.

Acts of Chaos

Lower your law/chaos alignment score by the awarded amount.

Alignment Scale

The chart below shows the score ranges that correspond to the various alignments. This is a two-axis system, and not a linear line. Points corresponding towards Good to Evil or Law to Chaos, are tracked separately. This creates a much more fluid and accurate representation of your character and who they are.

Alignment shifts can happen any time, even through RP, and are not announced when entered by a Dungeon Master. If your character's alignment is shifting, it will be displayed on the Master Sheet. This should be checked every so often by players. Point shifts are calculated from a master list of topics that are looked at individually for each character after quests or RP. This list and reference sheet is not shared or discussed with the players. This ensures that character development happens more organically and you are not "working" towards a specific alignment by forcing specific interactions.

Piety

Follow the tenets, or lose your god's favor.

If you are not within one step of your deities alignment, you can not gain Piety points from adventures, and lose access to that deities piety rewards until you are within one step of your deity's alignment. Alignment must be within one step of your Deity based on the table above, without using diagonals. Your Deity's base alignment must be a block adjacent to your own. For example a Lawful Good Deity could also have a follower that is Neutral Good or Lawful Neutral, but not Neutral.

Classes of Divine Powers

For a Cleric, Paladin, Saint, or Thaumaturgical Scholar to use their divine abilities, the above rule under Piety is in place. If you are not within a step of your Deity's alignment, you lose access to your class spells and abilities until your alignment matches within one step of that deity. This does not include features such as Extra Attack or Fighting Style, but powers based on divine means, such as Smite, Spells, Channel Divinity, ect. This also includes the gaining of Piety points, and use of Piety rewards.

Divine Conversion

A Cleric, Paladin, Saint, or Thaumaturgical Scholar who grossly violates the code of conduct required by their god (generally by acting in ways opposed to the god's alignment or purposes), loses all spells and class features, except for proficiencies. They cannot thereafter gain levels as a cleric or paladin of that god until they atone.

There are times where a character undergoes a dramatic experience in roleplay or a game session that may even shift their views entirely. Such a character may convert their faith to a new deity, losing all current Piety, but regaining their spells and class features.

By converting to a new deity, there is also an accompanying cost of gold and downtime based on a formula on a character's tier. This represents the time and energy spent in atoning.

Upon paying the costs above, the character receives the benefit of an atonement from a follower of the new deity. After selecting a new domain from the listed deities domains, the character regains access to their divine magic and abilities. The granted powers of the new domain will replace granted powers from the old domain. This method is the only one by which a character can change their deity for the specified classes above.

Alignment FAQ

Q: What things are good or evil?

A: The DM's will not publish this list, nor speak of it. To do so would illustrate a guide for people to follow to ensure a desired result. Alignment is organic and tied to actions and circumstances of the moment, and thus cannot be scripted towards a planned outcome. Play your character as you believe it should be played.

Q: I did something that my character thought was good, but didn't get any good points and/or got points of evil.

A: What you or your character does about a thing is not the basis of if it is good or evil, law or chaos. The DM takes into account many different circumstances but mostly the morality of the action given things like the setting, time, mitigations, and time to come to the decision.

Q: Necromancy and Poison?

A: The use of Poison is always considered evil. "Poison" for this purpose refers to anything that is itself a poison, per the use of the illegal substance (not spells that confer the poisoned condition). The use of necromancy is not in and of itself evil. However, the creation of the undead is evil, in all cases.