Alignment charts are easy to customize, and they have a crisp legibility. They spread easily because they clash with other people’s instincts: I get viscerally angry looking at an absolutely ...

If you’ve never seen an alignment chart before, here’s how they work. Each chart takes a collection of similar things, and categorizes them along two axes: law vs. chaos, and good vs.

Mechanically, this won’t have much impact on the game as any Pathfinder rule that used Ability Scores can easily be swapped out with an Ability Modifier, but it still represents a major turning ...