companion's alignment ?

[Tony]

Hello,

Can you give me a companion's alignment list please ?
I'd like to make a good and evil party, and pick my class beetween the missing classes of the party.

I have found this list :
Lae’zel
Astarion
Wyll
Shadowheart
Gale
Karlach
Jaheira

thank you

[Wolfgang421]

5e does away with alignments.

[droggen]

Originally posted by Wolfgang421:

5e does away with alignments.

Exactly companions will most likely change their views on the world depending on how you interact with them and help or harm them, Be a nice person most still with you might change their ways vice versa, At least that's what I got from the last panel from hell.

[fae.wicket]

Originally posted by droggen:

Originally posted by Wolfgang421:

5e does away with alignments.

Exactly companions will most likely change their views on the world depending on how you interact with them and help or harm them, Be a nice person most still with you might change their ways vice versa.

They didn't completely do away with them, but they definitely mean less than they used to.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

All of the companions are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Just make your own. Just remember, they say they did away with alignments, but goblins are still evil at birth.

[Tomatokek]

yeah i think there are no set alignments. just preferences based on back story that will change over time depending on your choices for each companion. Talk to them a lot and try to sway them your way. If you are going evil, you may (starting out) have an easier time with Asterion, Lae zel, and Minthara (drow paladin you meet that wants to destroy druid place). All of the rest are more neutral / good? starting out.

[Arcane]

Originally posted by Tony:

Hello,

Can you give me a companion's alignment list please ?
I'd like to make a good and evil party, and pick my class beetween the missing classes of the party.

I have found this list :
Lae’zel
Astarion
Wyll
Shadowheart
Gale
Karlach
Jaheira

thank you

Here is what I got from playing the beta:

Lae’zel - Neutral/Evil
Astarion - Evil
Wyll - Good
Shadowheart - Good
Gale - Good
Karlach - Good/Neutral probably?
Jaheira - ??

[FunkyMonkey]

Originally posted by Tony:

Hello,

Can you give me a companion's alignment list please ?
I'd like to make a good and evil party, and pick my class beetween the missing classes of the party.

I have found this list :
Lae’zel
Astarion
Wyll
Shadowheart
Gale
Karlach
Jaheira

thank you

While alignments don't exist in 5e, I'll try to give you an idea of the companions.

Laezel - Lawful evil
Astarion - Neutral evil
Wyll - No idea, some good alignment? Maybe Chaotic neutral. Mostly his alignment is Warlock, who knows about these guys.
Shadowheart - Neutral. While she worships an evil goddess, she doesn't approve of all-out evil acts and likes when you do some good things. Mostly just wants to stay out of trouble and doesn't want to go out of her way to help people.
Gale - Neutral good
Karlach - Chaotic good, most likely. Hard to say without seeing her in-game.
Jaheira - Neutral good. I think the only reason she wan't Neutral good in the previous games was because of her Druid class requiring True neutral alignment.

Hope that helps.

[A Disembodied Intelligence]

I'm not from a D'n'D background but I like the alignment chart so I'll have a guess for funsies:

Lae’zel - Lawful Evil
Astarion - Chaotic Evil
Wyll - Lawful Good
Shadowheart - True Neutral (And she can be convinced to be Good or Evil in-game)
Gale - Chaotic Good
Karlach - ??? Good

Arguments I think could be made for Gale and Wyll both being Neutral Good rather than Chaotic or Lawful Good, but they're definitely both Good at the end of the day.

Shadowheart might start off a little more Evil than Neutral also, but she can be convinced to approve of doing Good things fairly easily so I like to think of her as Neutral at heart at the start.

[stalker57]

Yeah although alignments exist in 5e they don't have as big an influence on your character as they used to in previous versions.

As seen in panels from hell and interviews the choices in your game may impact if a companion stays or goes and as there are so many there is no way of telling at this point how all these choices interact with your companions regardless of their alignment.

Also remember if for some reason you make a choice that forces a companion to leave and your like oh crap I no longer have a rogue or healer. You can repsec as many times as you want also there will be hirlings you can get to fill the missing roles.

If you are worried about missing certain characters stories, this will add to the replay factor of the game where you can play again and make different choices for different outcomes and also play as that companion that left and still see their story just through their eyes.

[2LambBuna]

Originally posted by T⭕mat⭕kek:

yeah i think there are no set alignments. just preferences based on back story that will change over time depending on your choices for each companion. Talk to them a lot and try to sway them your way. If you are going evil, you may (starting out) have an easier time with Asterion, Lae zel, and Minthara. All of the rest are more neutral / good? starting out.

this. Asterion and laezel will be ok with a neutral character though

[RakiaTime]

here's how i see them

Lae'Zel - Lawful Evil
Minthara - Lawful Evil
Astarion - Neutral Evil
Wyll - Chaotic Good
Karlach - Chaotic Good
Minsc - Lawful Good
Shadowhart - Neutral
Jaheira - Neutral Good
Gale - Literally Satan

[Rezonus]

I vaguely remember people complaining that none of them were good aligned characters except maybe Wyll? When this game was new.

[navigator4223]

There is no such thing as "alignment" anyway.

Characters, both real life and well written NPCs, are too complex to fit into one of nine boxes.

Example:

What is the alignment of Elon Musk?

Is he neutral good? I mean he gave us ubiquitous electric cars. Thats certainly a good deed.

Is he chaotic evil? Some may argue that how he acts as Twitter CEO is very not nice.

Is he lawful good? He certainly pays his taxes.

[Brady4444]

Alignment, in my opinion, only really matters when you're dealing with 'entities' and the like, particularly from the outer planes. Other examples might be a vampire from the Ravenloft setting, but that is due to the situation in that demiplane.

[A Disembodied Intelligence]

Originally posted by navigator4223:

What is the alignment of Elon Musk?

Neutral Evil