Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
Also, hoboknight is playing 5e and 5e made a deliberate point to move away from alignment being so closely tied to mechanical effects.
Which is one of the prime beefs I have with 5E, actually. If you remove all the game mechanics there seems little point in keeping alignments.

It's very unclear how much either short or long term magical compulsion would have on someone's alignment, ignoring effects specifically designed to do so like the helm of opposite alignment.
Just as I described - be forced to do something horrible enough while under someone else's control and you'll still have to have an atonement, even though you technically had no choice.