Neutral.
Not True Neutral (NN/NN)
Not Neutral Good or Evil (NG/NE)
Not Lawful Neutral or Chaotic Neutral (LN/CN)
Neutral
Because you keep simplifying Ideals down to half or less than their normal amount, so I went with half an alignment.
Crap? I did exactly what you did. Declared that if you know the context, read the reference and assume it fills in the blanks, then it makes perfect sense.
Really? Neutral gave you the idea that he followed his king and protects the innocent, and that flaw? I thought those came from the IBF? After all, Neutral doesn't mention kings, innocents, big words, none of it.
Could you maybe read what I've been trying to say instead of claiming that I am trying to put you into a bad light?
Because, the thing you did claim, was that two identical ideals could be made different with an alignment. So, I gave you two identical ideals, based on your original post, and gave them to different alignments.
Surprisingly though, no one seems to agree that that makes them suddenly different.
Nope. You are doing it again, as usual. IF you take time to read Ideals. You will notice there are small written words saying :" Lawful, Chaotic, Good, Evil, Neutral and Any!!!!"
Need I remind You that in 5ed, specific beats general? You took a special evil ideal and decided by yourself to apply to a good character.... That is one of the weakest possible counter point you could have taken.
This is the same BS with your ideal:" My journal" I can't infer anything because iis meaning is not in any of the rule books or in any posts in this thread. That I took the liberty of not rewrite the whole IBF written in a thread to which I was referring is perfectly valid because common grounds have already been established (either the post, or the rule books) but your example was made so that you thought it would give you a "win".
Again, specific beats general. If you take an evil ideal, of course it will be hard and sometimes impossible to apply it to a good aligned character (or lawful vs chaotic for that matter).
Stop the nitpicking, it does not suit you or the points you are trying to make. If anything, all the exceptions you are trying to make only prove that our general take on alignment is right. It is an excellent general tool for what we do with it. Again specific beats general.
I know how a CE usually acts. But if I need a specific vilain to act some other way, it is my right as well as my duty to create a specific narrative for that specific vilain. The vast majority of my CE critters/opponents will act as what they are. But again, some vilain will be CE and will not act as the CE unless pushed into a corner. Maybe that vilain has a high wisdom and charisma score enables that specific vilain to hide his true personnality. Again, specific beats general.
As for the example I have given you that you so claim I got inspired. I simply took the same IBF that have been working all along. Easier to refer to that as we have been talking about these for a while now. Why would I change them? To bring more confusion? It would do nothing good.
Look, dear
@Chaosmancer, you're a nice person and some of your ideas are great and interesting. But when you go into nitpicking mode it does not help the discussion one iota simply because a lot if people simply stop reading your posts.