osrlib.core.alignment
The three alignments every creature in the game declares.
The module has one member,
Alignment. You pass one to
create_character when you roll a player
character, and you read one off a monster: a template has an
AlignmentSpec of the alignments its kind can
have, and spawn_monster settles on one for the
individual. The rules read alignment in two places: a character's alignment tongue, the
secret language its adherents share, is derived from it by
Character.alignment_tongue, and
spells and magic items that care whose side a creature is on compare alignments.
Alignment sits in its own module so that both the character models and the monster models can import it without importing each other.
Alignment
Bases: StrEnum
The cosmic principle a creature follows: law, neutrality, or chaos.
Reference a member by name (Alignment.LAWFUL) when you write the value yourself,
and call the enum on a string (Alignment("lawful")) when the value arrives from
saved data or from a player's input. The member compares equal to its own lowercase
string, so character.alignment == "lawful" is true as well.
The rules attach no mechanical penalty to acting against alignment. The SRD leaves that to the referee. What the rules do read is the alignment tongue derived from the value, and the alignment comparisons a handful of spells and magic items make.
The lowercase values serialize into characters and saved games. Changing one is a
schema_version bump, the version stamp that marks a serialized model's shape.
Examples:
from osrlib.core.alignment import Alignment
assert Alignment("lawful") is Alignment.LAWFUL
assert Alignment.CHAOTIC == "chaotic"
LAWFUL
class-attribute
instance-attribute
Goodness, order, truth, and justice as the natural order of the universe.
Lawful creatures are trustworthy, protect others, and act for the good of the group.
NEUTRAL
class-attribute
instance-attribute
A balance between law and chaos, with neither side dominant.
Neutral creatures cooperate with others as long as it costs them nothing, and live by their own talents rather than relying on anyone else.