The meaning of "Alignment," and especially how it connects to the FR Pantheon and the Planes of Existence won't be immediately clear to players who are less familiar with D&D or this game's particular setting. The older PHB/ BG style cliffnotes describing Alignment via a couple brief one liner examples also leaves a lot to be desired. Still, I think it's an interesting part of the D&D framework, so I have a few ideas for how it might present in a game like BG3.
First would be to do it up a bit like Clash of the Titans or Jason and the Argonauts, where the player occasionally gets to eavesdrop on a divine council of some sort, or a divine bickering session. Or provide opportunities where the player actually gets to interract with the gods somehow, and then they present as exemplars. See the Harryhausen films or read Books 4 and 5 of the Iliad for classic examples how that might work, then just sub out the Olympian Pantheon for the FR one.
The second idea would be to riff on Jiminy Cricket basically, or Alexander the Great's Daemon, or the Angel vs Devil on the shoulder conceit. But instead of just 1 or 2, there are 4 daemons of conscience. So we'd have the Daemons of Law and Chaos as well as the Daemons of Good and Evil. That way they can argue or team up and try to pull Tav to one side or the other with grudging compromises. This is something they could run with a couple times if it wasn't over used, but which I think would be amusing. Everyone has seen how the Angel vs Devil thing looks in cartoons, so it would be funny if it started like that, but then poof! another pair shows up, with really solid counterpoints to whatever the Good/Evil daemons just said, but along the Law/Chaos divide instead. That way the Character's shoulders get all crowded, and the player is brought in on the joke like that.
Obviously that'd be a fair bit of work to suss out, but I think it could fit as a nod, especially with what they already have going in BG3. Sure it's a bit fantastical for people who might prefer a more mundane conceptualization of Alignment, but I think something like that could be instructive and pretty entertaining.
Last edited by Black_Elk; 30/08/22 11:25 PM.
