Before Dungeons and Dragons was an amusing time waster for nerds, the cooperative board game was a lightning rod for controversy. It let players engage with an imaginative world in which many made-up ...

"Alignment charts" began life as a standardized way to describe a character's general moral disposition in role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Where does this person (or elf or orc or whatever ...

Earlier versions of Dungeons & Dragons used the alignment system as a mechanic to help DMs maintain their world and to keep players from acting “out of character.” Not only could a DM penalize a ...

In Part 1 of this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses a new poll from YouGov that asked Americans where they fall on the Dungeons and Dragons alignment chart, ...