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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ysgarran" data-source="post: 167593" data-attributes="member: 709">A NG rogue doesn't have a huge amount of respect for laws because they are laws, he has respect for those that further the cause of good.He wouldn't have any problem at all stealing blind some slum lord who was charging exorbitant rental rates or stealing from the mining magnate who charged more in food and lodging then he actually pays out in wages.Realistic characters and personalities are not perfect.  Alignments do not cover all aspects of an NPCs personality.  A NG rogue may occasionally steal from someone who has earned it in a perfectly moral way but he may still rationalize it as "Well, this doesn't really hurt him and I'll give some money to people who 'really' need it".A LE character may be honorable and believe in fair combat but he also believes there is nothing wrong in using torture to extract information from captured prisoners.  Or he may believe in fair and honorable combat with only those who are human and of the noble class.One of the things I ask from my players is for them to give me one aspect of their character that does not follow their alignment.   For example, I have one dwarf in my group of players who says he would be tempted to break his alignment code to find out the location of Mithral Hall.Ysgarran.edit:  there -> their.</blockquote>