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 ...

ALIGNMENT charts have apparently fascinated the writers of engineering text-books to such an extent that they can write of nothing else. That they are interesting and useful cannot be doubted ...

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.

The alignment chart, borrowed from the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, is a common way of classifying different characters or situations along axes of good and evil, law and chaos.

Ever since I got big into RPGs I’ve been obsessed with character alignment charts. I even bought one of those cool CritSuccess die rings that determines alignments at random. Alignment is a ...