If I as the player find her to be evil, then she is evil.
lol, sry this just reminded me of the anakin quote from episode three
i actually dont think i disagree with your overall sentiment - i just think that alignment should be a working function of a bg3 game based on 5e. if larian includes/improves it where it impacts the gameplay in a meaningful way that, as you said doesnt set up biased roadblocks within the game preventing you from treating SH as evil, i think it will be real successful - i just want to see it first.
Alignment has virtually no rules in 5th edition. It is barely a thing at all. There are no spells or abilities that have anything to do with alignment, and there are a tiny handful of legendary items that can change your alignment. Outside of those, alignment has been functionally removed from D&D.
Now it is more a feature of the lore than anything else.
Yes I agree. It is no longer a feature in the rules because it is left up to DMs and players to determine them.
i dont want to make the alignment discussion derail op's original intent for this thread - i actually am not opposed to a more permanent 6person party after the first act, im just concerned with how larian is going to pull it off and want to provide feedback as part of ea (ex. i hope they draw more inspiration from ME1&2 than dos2 for this specific topic) - but there is actually what i find to be a pretty good u tube video by Web DM about alignment in 5e (Nov. 1,2017) that ppl may find interesting via a quick web search (id post the link but being new to the forums i dont want to break any rules...yet ). the vid is ~27min but i think their discussion hits on alot of the points also made here about alignment's place and function in a dnd game and wanted to share for any interested.
). the vid is ~27min but i think their discussion hits on alot of the points also made here about alignment's place and function in a dnd game and wanted to share for any interested.