Quote Originally Posted by Beta Centauri View Post
Via specific rules, not value judgments. One can say "Hey, your dwarf wouldn't get along with his elf," but there's no rule against that, and no in-system grounds or means for taking away the character's race because they're playing it in a way that bothers someone else.
Exactly. When you're a fighter, and you say "I move and attack", nobody goes "you can't do that, you can only full attack". When you roll the dice to see if you hit, there is no confusion about it, and if there is, you just have to quickly re-calculate to make sure you're getting the bonuses right, it still has a definitive ruling. Meanwhile, alignments have no mechanical effects aside from tags and effects on certain spells.

We could decide to replace "good, evil, law, chaos" with "blue, orange, green, red" and remove all the flavor text and it might actually be an improvement. Except for the part where it doesn't say how many times you have to use a spell with the "orange" tag before you aren't blue any more, or anything like that.