Mike White’s acclaimed HBO show, The White Lotus Season 3, has ended, prompting a conversation among viewers about the characters’ alignment chart. For the uninitiated, an alignment chart (popularized ...

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. Many ...

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 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; but the ...