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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6758310" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>True Neutral seems to be a pretty easy thing to grasp.</p><p></p><p>Evil: "Want to go burn down that village and enslave those people over there for no reason but that we can?!"</p><p>True Neural: "Uh... no. Seems rather dickish."</p><p>Evil: "Oh! Did I mention that they are all wicked sinners who insulted your god and he himself spoke through his prophet and said their city must be destroyed and they must be killed or enslaved to his glory and if you do, he will reward you with eternal peace and happiness in the afterlife?"</p><p>True Neutral: "Oh! You didn't say that. Okay, let me get my sword."</p><p></p><p>Evil: "Hey, want to kill that guy over there just to see how he screams and watch the life extinguish from his eyes?"</p><p>True Neutral: "What?! Absolutely not!! I am going to turn you over to the police."</p><p>Evil: "Oh, but you know that 10,000 gold piece debt you have that you will never be able to pay off and will keep you in slavery forever? That will be wiped out and no one will ever know you were the one who did it. Just shoot this poison dart into him."</p><p>True Neutral: "ugh.. I guess I have no choice, but I'm going to feel bad about this for the rest of my life."</p><p></p><p>Good: "Would you please make a donation for the poor of the city?"</p><p>True Neutral: "You know, I am feeling good today and I have more than I need. I would be glad to help!"</p><p>Good: "Oh, wonderful! So you will give us all your worldly possessions including the clothes on your back? I am so pleased to hear it!"</p><p>True Neutral: "WHAT?!! Absolutely not! What kind of maniac are you? Here is 5 gold and be glad I gave that!"</p><p></p><p>Good: "Oh no! There are Orcs attacking the town!! We must sacrifice our lives so that all the weak may escape!"</p><p>True Neutral: "Oh, crap! Everything I own is here. Okay, I will help with the defense as long as it looks like we can hold. But if it becomes hopeless I am out of here."</p><p></p><p>Lawful: "We must create more stringent laws and uphold them or our society will entirely crumble!"</p><p>True Neutral: "I totally agree. Respect for the law is totally necessary for us to all live together in peace."</p><p>Lawful: "That is why we are instituting a city wide curfew and we are going to put scrying spells on everyone in the city to watch every action they take so we can immediately take away and execute anyone who violates the law."</p><p>True Neutral: "Wait, what?! Oh, no you don't! I am not going to have your creepy wizards watching me every moment of the day and you need to stop executing people over minor infractions."</p><p></p><p>Chaos: "Freedom!! We must all be free to live our lives and be who we want. Down with the tyranny!"</p><p>True Neutral: "Yeah, I like freedom. I hate being oppressed. I am totally with you!"</p><p>Chaos: "That is why we are going to abolish all government and law. Then we can all be ourselves by doing whatever we want whenever we want to whomever we want so long as they can't physically stop us!"</p><p>True Neutral: "Ugh.. well, you just lost me. On second thought, I kind of like having a city watch around and some laws to protect me from you without having to watch my back with a weapon in my hand constantly."</p><p></p><p></p><p>It is real simple. True Neutral is just general anti-extremism. You aren't generally going to be down to do evil things for the sake of doing evil or enjoying causing pain or suffering, but you can be tempted into doing evil things if the reward for doing so or the penalty for not doing so is high enough-- particularly if you can do so secretly and without having to see the victim for yourself or face the consequences.</p><p>You are probably going to be up for doing good things, so long as it doesn't cause you to suffer in order to do so and almost certainly you need to be prompted to do so by being asked or seeing the need for good to be done. A lot of your good acts are probably going to be somewhat self-serving to an extent, but that doesn't mean they are entirely so.</p><p></p><p>You understand that there can be too much restriction and there can be too much chaos, you probably aren't going to be in favor of either repressive tyranny or complete anarchy as both make the lives of yourself and those around you harder than they need to be and are liable to cause more harm to you and those you have good relationships with than a nice balance between the two. You will probably be more or less okay with the society you were born into and raised in, more likely to be critical of foreign societies with a certain blindness towards your own's faults. If it comes down to a massive rebellion to take down the monarchy and a massive movement to protect them, you will probably be late to join either side unless you get dragged into it by someone else.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, True Neutral should probably be the most common alignment in the world. It means your mind can be changed and your opinion can be swayed. Even most Dwarfs and Goblins and such should probably be True Neutral with only a few of them being Lawful Good or Neutral Evil in order to influence the generally True Neutral majority into adopting certain behaviors or customs.</p><p></p><p>But is important to note that willingness to go along with one's peers and a distaste for extremism is far different from being mindless or autonomous or following a set of preprogrammed routines. There are those lines that you get to in terms of selfishness, selflessness, honor or impetuousness or whatever that you are going to say "this is crazy" and not cross unless placed under an enormous amount of pressure to do so. True Neutral's default stance is the mediocre everyday status quo, not nothingness and inaction.</p><p></p><p>The only thing is that True Neutral is the worst alignment for any sort of hero or villain in the world. They generally try not to be active participants in the kinds of actions and movements that fundamentally change the world. They really generally just want things to stay the way they are and to benefit primarily but not exclusively themselves and see that as many others are safe, happy and productive as possible, at least those who have not been labeled "enemy" and they are convinced are out to harm them, while still allowing for less than pure things to exist in the world for fun and just to be generally harmonious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6758310, member: 6777454"] True Neutral seems to be a pretty easy thing to grasp. Evil: "Want to go burn down that village and enslave those people over there for no reason but that we can?!" True Neural: "Uh... no. Seems rather dickish." Evil: "Oh! Did I mention that they are all wicked sinners who insulted your god and he himself spoke through his prophet and said their city must be destroyed and they must be killed or enslaved to his glory and if you do, he will reward you with eternal peace and happiness in the afterlife?" True Neutral: "Oh! You didn't say that. Okay, let me get my sword." Evil: "Hey, want to kill that guy over there just to see how he screams and watch the life extinguish from his eyes?" True Neutral: "What?! Absolutely not!! I am going to turn you over to the police." Evil: "Oh, but you know that 10,000 gold piece debt you have that you will never be able to pay off and will keep you in slavery forever? That will be wiped out and no one will ever know you were the one who did it. Just shoot this poison dart into him." True Neutral: "ugh.. I guess I have no choice, but I'm going to feel bad about this for the rest of my life." Good: "Would you please make a donation for the poor of the city?" True Neutral: "You know, I am feeling good today and I have more than I need. I would be glad to help!" Good: "Oh, wonderful! So you will give us all your worldly possessions including the clothes on your back? I am so pleased to hear it!" True Neutral: "WHAT?!! Absolutely not! What kind of maniac are you? Here is 5 gold and be glad I gave that!" Good: "Oh no! There are Orcs attacking the town!! We must sacrifice our lives so that all the weak may escape!" True Neutral: "Oh, crap! Everything I own is here. Okay, I will help with the defense as long as it looks like we can hold. But if it becomes hopeless I am out of here." Lawful: "We must create more stringent laws and uphold them or our society will entirely crumble!" True Neutral: "I totally agree. Respect for the law is totally necessary for us to all live together in peace." Lawful: "That is why we are instituting a city wide curfew and we are going to put scrying spells on everyone in the city to watch every action they take so we can immediately take away and execute anyone who violates the law." True Neutral: "Wait, what?! Oh, no you don't! I am not going to have your creepy wizards watching me every moment of the day and you need to stop executing people over minor infractions." Chaos: "Freedom!! We must all be free to live our lives and be who we want. Down with the tyranny!" True Neutral: "Yeah, I like freedom. I hate being oppressed. I am totally with you!" Chaos: "That is why we are going to abolish all government and law. Then we can all be ourselves by doing whatever we want whenever we want to whomever we want so long as they can't physically stop us!" True Neutral: "Ugh.. well, you just lost me. On second thought, I kind of like having a city watch around and some laws to protect me from you without having to watch my back with a weapon in my hand constantly." It is real simple. True Neutral is just general anti-extremism. You aren't generally going to be down to do evil things for the sake of doing evil or enjoying causing pain or suffering, but you can be tempted into doing evil things if the reward for doing so or the penalty for not doing so is high enough-- particularly if you can do so secretly and without having to see the victim for yourself or face the consequences. You are probably going to be up for doing good things, so long as it doesn't cause you to suffer in order to do so and almost certainly you need to be prompted to do so by being asked or seeing the need for good to be done. A lot of your good acts are probably going to be somewhat self-serving to an extent, but that doesn't mean they are entirely so. You understand that there can be too much restriction and there can be too much chaos, you probably aren't going to be in favor of either repressive tyranny or complete anarchy as both make the lives of yourself and those around you harder than they need to be and are liable to cause more harm to you and those you have good relationships with than a nice balance between the two. You will probably be more or less okay with the society you were born into and raised in, more likely to be critical of foreign societies with a certain blindness towards your own's faults. If it comes down to a massive rebellion to take down the monarchy and a massive movement to protect them, you will probably be late to join either side unless you get dragged into it by someone else. Honestly, True Neutral should probably be the most common alignment in the world. It means your mind can be changed and your opinion can be swayed. Even most Dwarfs and Goblins and such should probably be True Neutral with only a few of them being Lawful Good or Neutral Evil in order to influence the generally True Neutral majority into adopting certain behaviors or customs. But is important to note that willingness to go along with one's peers and a distaste for extremism is far different from being mindless or autonomous or following a set of preprogrammed routines. There are those lines that you get to in terms of selfishness, selflessness, honor or impetuousness or whatever that you are going to say "this is crazy" and not cross unless placed under an enormous amount of pressure to do so. True Neutral's default stance is the mediocre everyday status quo, not nothingness and inaction. The only thing is that True Neutral is the worst alignment for any sort of hero or villain in the world. They generally try not to be active participants in the kinds of actions and movements that fundamentally change the world. They really generally just want things to stay the way they are and to benefit primarily but not exclusively themselves and see that as many others are safe, happy and productive as possible, at least those who have not been labeled "enemy" and they are convinced are out to harm them, while still allowing for less than pure things to exist in the world for fun and just to be generally harmonious. [/QUOTE]
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