29: A Dungeon Crawl Through Moral Alignments

Authors

Eleanor Price, DePauw University
Christiane Wisehart, DePauw UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-25-2018

Abstract

Can necromancers be good people? Can dragons be feminist care ethicists? Why are we asking? In this episode, producer Eleanor Price asks resident ethics expert (and fellow role-playing game enthusiast) Andy Cullison about the moral theories behind games like Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder. They guide producer Christiane Wisehart through the game mechanic called moral alignment -- an attribute that shows how good or evil you are in the game -- and how closely these imagined ideas align with real-world philosophy.

Recommended Citation

Price, Eleanor and Wisehart, Christiane, "29: A Dungeon Crawl Through Moral Alignments" (2018). Examining Ethics Podcast. 36, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/examining-ethics/36