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Potentially weird question: if you had to assign a #dnd alignment to the fear of spiders, what would you give it?

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Just to clarify, I'm asking you to assign an alignment to the idea of creepy spiders in the abstract. I personally lean towards neutral because I don't find spiders scary until they are touching me, and I can't find jumping spiders scary at all. But I want to find out what other people think.

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[โ€“] Teddy@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

True Neutral

Fear of spiders is an inate defense response passed down by survivors of spider encounters. It is a behavior accessible to creatures of all alignments.

How funny would it be to have the BBEG & an arachniphobic paladin cluch eachother in fear of a wildshaped giant wolf-spider?

[โ€“] Teddy@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Post-clarification answer: unaligned

Most reference books have normalish spiders categorized as unaligned beasts. They don't qualify as intelligent enough to have morals & ethics.