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>Why don't more modern RPGs have actual alignment systems in them?

Leftists realized that a lot of the things they support philosophically politically and economically turn out to be actually cruel and/or evil in their real world implementations. Therefore leftist historians, thought-leaders,academics etc. decided that terms like "good" and "evil" are not valid ways of viewing the world. This line of thinking eventually filtered through to leftist creators and their creations, and thus we have this endless series of thin, boring, character driven, morally gray, narratives throughout all of popular fiction. They are peppered with (sometimes thinly disguised) throwbacks to contemporary political and cultural issues as stand-ins for good and evil.

The grand narrative of obvious good triumphing over obvious evil isn't considered complex enough any more. E.g.: the church is evil, the "good" king who inspires valor and heroism from his champions secretly approves pogroms, etc. So it's usually some mix of "me and my friends somehow manage to do what we want" or "me and my friends manage to survive". An GNE alignment isn't of much use here as the narratives are character driven and usually rely on characters acting out character as "unpredictable" twists as a matter of routine to drive the story forward. Basically all the characters and entities are chaotic neutrals anyway, and a PC alignment would only serve the story in a shallow fashion - an ending twist, a different spell set, or some slightly differing npc interactions. Etc.

Too much squeeze not enough juice.

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