Recent content by Maxperson

You need to look at more dictatorships. They have many, many, MANY laws. North Korea has a codified legal system. Iran has a codified legal system. Afghanistan has a codified legal system. Angola has a codified legal system. Cuba has a codified legal system. Yemen has a codified legal system...

Yep. And the leaders are the most violent, capricious, insane bastards around.

Sanity/stability is not a hallmark of the leaders in those areas.

It's completely dysfunctional. That's an insane method of government. And if you've read any of the books about drow, random acts of violence are all over them on a regular basis.

Do you really think that the drow society is a rational one?

3e shifted language without telling people in-between printings. That's interesting. Back during 3e we had a different argument between two of my players, both insisting they were right about how something was worded. It wasn't until they both pulled out their PHB's to prove their position that...

I don't believe those alignments can be played smart for the reasons listed. If you use alignment as written/defined by every edition, and the CE person plays smart, he's really LE or NE. That or you've redefined alignment for your game, which he can of course do, but he didn't need to come...

And you can disagree. But all the parts I bolded are objective things that do count as reasons to believe what I believe. As I said, you can believe otherwise, and I could be wrong, but they ARE in fact reasons. All I said was that your claim that there was no reason to believe what I am...

That's very clearly not what I said. Um, you do know that I've been saying that CE is also crazy, right? Mad schemes of revenge and havok doesn't contradict diddly of what I said. Also very clearly not what I said. Feel free to disagree with your own Strawman argument all you like. Are you...

Well that's objectively false. All of the bolded portions of D&D General - How do you do smart chaotic evil? are reasons to think that. You can believe the reasons or not, and those reasons can be correct or not, but they ARE reasons.

I don't think that's true, though. A certain minority of the population is crazy(CN and CE). There aren't many of them around. CG has a larger number and is not crazy, but is still a minority. The overwhelming number of people on Earth are neutral. They don't care who is in power, what the...

Then you haven't been paying attention to what I write. I'm arguing what the alignment section is written to show, not how I run alignment, which I posted in at least one prior post. I don't even use alignment for players. They can use it if they want to, and interpret it however they like...

1e: "Chaotic Evil: The major precepts of this alignment are freedom, randomness, and woe. Laws and order, kindness, and good deeds are disdained. life has no value. By promoting chaos and evil, those of this alignment hope to bring themselves to positions of power, glory, and prestige in a...

It's not pure CE. It's either LE, he wants to rob and abuse the land for his gain, so he's going to install himself as the law of the land to do it. Or it's NE, where he wants to accomplish an evil thing and will do whatever it takes to get there. Also, don't twist my arguments. I...

That would be neutral. They don't care for law, chaos, good, or evil enough to register as one of those. To be chaotic, you need to strongly believe in chaos. Thinking laws are stupid isn't enough. Someone who is chaotic would actively go out and fight against the oppression of laws. Because...