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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.Some of it is micro-managing vs not CE "smart" bad guy would thrive off entropy. Destabilize a system and thrive amongst the chaos they... -
TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.You misread what I was trying to put out there. I was saying, if you go by the personality argument that you stated as flawed... then by...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with
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You may note that I have not cared a ton for alignment as a structure in most editions. And that's entirely because the convenient... -
TorgoTheWhite reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with Like.
Well I mean back in 4e it was perfectly possible, because the lore wasn't structured to make gnolls just the worst and instead making it...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with Like.
Agreed. Jack is a whimsical dude who loves freedom and hates the rigid hierarchical structures of most social order, which is why he...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.This is true... one could say, if arguing personality and "smart" in absolutes, that LE are incapable of being "smart" as well...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to nevin's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with Like.
Well first of all you have to understand Alignment isn't personality. It also isn't Intelligence. A CE can be smart enough to avoid...
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with Like.
It's only an issue if you take the single phrase "acts on a whim" and base every decision and action upon that. Instead I view it as...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.Been awhile since I read the Dark Tower, but I think Martin.. or Randall Flag are CE they seem like some sort of human incarnation of...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.I'm going to disagree, mindfulness and Critical thinking are different things. Wits and thinking on a whim is a different type of...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.The system would be the underling's/sheeple's best attempt at trying to shoehorn order into a CE leader's regime... I would think for...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.Whims versus long-term planning is a big one IMO. You can be cunningly unpredictable and not stupidly unpredictable.
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TorgoTheWhite reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with Like.
Okay. So 4 editions clearly talk about whims, recklessness and being driven by emotion. ONE(4e) just makes them super insane.
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.Good question, "civilization" builders tend to have a long-term plan, at least IMO that is the difference because I picture him as LE...
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TorgoTheWhite replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.I just think of most Mad Max/Fallout Raider chiefs as CE. So, Darwinian bad guys with the "cream rising to the top". They are the...