A fan has made an Among Us alignment chart to categorize some of the most common reactions an impostor can have to being caught in the act. Among Us is one of 2020’s biggest surprise hits; the social deduction game was released in 2018 but failed to gain a real following until 2020, at which point it exploded in popularity. It was such a tremendous success that it made Steam’s list for best-selling games of 2020, despite its low price and the fact that it’s free on mobile devices.
The game’s success has led to a massive, dedicated following, and that, in turn, has produced a lot of fan content. Players have been paying homage to Among Us in all manner of strange and phenomenal ways. Fan art is of course a common means of expressing one’s love for a game, and people have certainly produced a lot of fan art of Among Us. But they’ve also gone further, producing whole 3D films and animations to commemorate the game. One fan even created and played through one of the game’s maps in 3D.
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But Reddit user MonotonousProtocol has shifted their focus away from the game itself and focused on the people who play it. They’ve created a Dungeons & Dragons alignment chart by which a player can judge their behavior as an impostor. The chart sorts players based on their reaction to getting caught in the act of committing a murder. The Good impostors, for instance, admit defeat with varying levels of dignity, while the Neutral ones deny their guilt one way or another or simply rage quit altogether. MonotonousProtocol has saved the Evil row for impostors who report their co-conspirators, or even pretend to. Even players who claim they’re about to reveal an impostor as a joke without following through are categorized as Lawful Evil. Impostors who name innocent crewmates upon being outed are Neutral Evil, while those who snitch on their fellow Impostor are Chaotic Evil.
D&D alignment charts have always been a good way of categorizing people based on their behavior. The simple 3×3 chart was created for the iconic tabletop RPG as a way to quickly and intuitively sort characters based on their goals and beliefs. It’s an efficient system, but in recent years it’s been getting more and more controversial. There’s always been a bit of ambiguity in how each alignment is defined, and disagreements on how a character should act according to their alignment can be quite disruptive at the table. The game has also been accused of perpetuating racist stereotypes by giving player races alignments that they’re generally inclined to, though the most recent book, Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, has thankfully resolved this issue to some degree.
As problematic as the alignment chart is becoming in modern D&D, it remains a decent way of sorting morality at a glance. If nothing else, it makes for a solid meme, as seen here. For the most part it looks like MonotonousProtocol just wanted to condemn people who rat out their friends. But all the same, this chart is a solid look into the life of an Among Us impostor.
Source: MonotonousProtocol
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