Thoughts on Alignment

Sort of continuing from Friday's Best of the Web post, part of the Wizards of the Coat policies was to suggest a change in alignments so that these races are not always evil. I've always ignored Alignments for Player Characters but find them occasionally useful for NPC and monsters, still I'd never noticed the alignments changed over time.

Baddie Alignment Through the Editions

Race	1E	3E	5E
Drow Elves	CE	Usually NE	NE
Dueger Dwarves	LE	Often LE	LE
Goblin	LE	Usually NE	NE
Hobgoblin	LE	Usually LE	LE
Ogre	CE	Usually CE	CE
Orc	LE	Often CE	CE

I find it especially interesting that 3E added Usually and Often to a number of alignments. I don't know if I read it somewhere or if I was just a rebel as a kid but I'd always assumed a race wasn't gonna be 100% all one alignment.