houg holodomor, owner of the h

as the system has developed since, the best fits are one-dimensional stereotypes: chaotic good is when you're robin hood, lawful evil is when you're a nazi (specifically the image the nazis wanted to broadcast of themselves, not how they really were), lawful good is when you're one of the good guys but annoying about it, etc. which are actively counterproductive for trying to either understand the motivations of fictional people or groups (as the alignments will push them toward being hollow bit characters) or play as one (half the alignments are 'asshole alignments' you never want anyone in your group to choose)

THIS ALL SAID you can find seriously proposed systems that do map to the alignments fairly well; the political compass is one example, but consider also this:

as per these posts by TheLovecraftianGamer,

i think both of these are mostly bullshit. but they're usable bullshit

something of note here is that gygax hated the idea of inhabiting a role whilst playing as he believed it was female-coded (this is real. he said this). in his mode of ttrpg playing all 'alignment' is an arbitrary challenge for the player to fit their strategies into or the dm will punish them (via depriving them of their class powers etc)

or this, which also fits fairly well into the mtg color pie

@selfsame@tiny.tilde.website the latter are based on the former

@BDA@monads.online wow, problematic :/

@Sindemore@monads.online i had the thought at one point of using them as ability scores

@PhoebeWallerPalladino@monads.online what a steal!

@BDA@monads.online ator 4 mentioned

@BDA@monads.online but now you'll also have to watch troll 1 and 2