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What makes a character moral? What separates courage from recklessness, justice from obedience, or compassion from weakness? The Moral Imagination explores those questions through the lens of narrative roleplaying, using Aristotle’s virtue ethics to rethink the traditional alignment method and the moral assumptions built into fantasy storytelling.
This revised and expanded edition, previously published as Aristotle’s Alignment, examines Law, Chaos, Good, Evil, virtue, flourishing, cooperation, selfishness, justice, and moral growth as active forces within collaborative narrative. Rather than treating morality as a static label, the book approaches ethics as pressure, decision, consequence, and character development shaped through play. The result is both a philosophical examination of alignment and a practical framework for creating richer, more human stories at the table.
156 pages. PDF and epub files included.
What makes a character moral? What separates courage from recklessness, justice from obedience, or compassion from weakness? The Moral Imagination explores those questions through the lens of narrative roleplaying, using Aristotle’s virtue ethics to rethink the traditional alignment method and the moral assumptions built into fantasy storytelling.
This revised and expanded edition, previously published as Aristotle’s Alignment, examines Law, Chaos, Good, Evil, virtue, flourishing, cooperation, selfishness, justice, and moral growth as active forces within collaborative narrative. Rather than treating morality as a static label, the book approaches ethics as pressure, decision, consequence, and character development shaped through play. The result is both a philosophical examination of alignment and a practical framework for creating richer, more human stories at the table.
156 pages. PDF and epub files included.
