diff --git a/src/role.c b/src/role.c
index d8bc060b0..a83e45706 100644
--- a/src/role.c
+++ b/src/role.c
@@ -1387,7 +1387,15 @@ root_plselection_prompt(
 
     if (alignnum != ROLE_NONE && alignnum != ROLE_RANDOM
         && ok_align(rolenum, racenum, gendnum, alignnum)) {
+#if 0   /* 'if' and 'else' had duplicate code here; probably a copy+parse
+         * oversight; if a problem with filtering of random role selection
+         * crops up, this is probably the place to start looking */
+
         /* if race specified, and multiple choice of alignments for it */
+        if ((racenum >= 0) && (aligncount > 1)) {
+        } else {
+        }
+#endif  /* the four lines of code below were in both 'if' and 'else' above */
         if (donefirst)
             Strcat(buf, " ");
         Strcat(buf, aligns[alignnum].adj);