Quote: "Clearly it's not so obvious, at least before we've played the game and gotten to know the characters thoroughly."
Fair point...all the characters seem well thought out and it will come down to preference.
Now,I am not sure why WOTC is shying away from alignment, but they can't ignore their own lore.
Quote: "we are starting out in a temple of Selune and traveling with priest of Shar. Great!"
This is a huge oversight, as Selune and Shar fought bitterly in the Godswar...in fact a good portion of the pantheon took sides. Shar and Cyric murdered Mystra causing the Spellplague that resulted in unnatural disasters that reshaped Faerun (death and destruction on a world scale).
Ok the others (beside Shadowheart) are probably not "evil" (just not a good fit) and can sit at my campfire. I will probably do their personal missions but they won't make my main party list. I will use the fighter...and lets see...I need a Druid (hopefully they make a voiced one of those) and either a pally or I will get a life cleric hireling.
The priestess of Shar is still on her own...In the end it will be the player who has to implement the alignment system.
