AIEEE!!! CN is not insanity!!!!

[buzzard]

OK, just getting that off my chest.
Time for the rhetorhical oft answered question-
Why do so many people play CN as if it means you are insane?
[beaten equine stiff lets off a nasty odor when hit again]

buzzard

 

[hong]

Hangover from 2E, I'd say.

 

[Nifft]

IMC, CN = Libertoon.

Sanity of the above would tend to be political.

-- N

 

[Tsyr]

Yeah... I mean, come on... This is what you were dealing with in the 2E PHB for the CN alignment description...

Chaotic neutral characters believe that there is no order to anything, including their own actions. With this as a guiding principle, they tend to follow whatever whim strikes them at the moment. Good and evil are irrelevant when making a decision. Chaotic neutral characters are extremely difficult to deal with. Such characters have been known to cheerfully and for no apparent purpose gamble away everything they have on the roll of a single die. They are almost totally unreliable. In fact, the only reliable thing about them is that they cannot be relied upon! This alignment is perhaps the most difficult to play. Lunatics and madmen tend toward chaotic neutral behavior.

Copyright 1999 TSR Inc.

Whoah. How about that? Cool. When I copy-paste something from the Core Rules CD, it includes a little copyright tag... Hope that one entry is considered fair use...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Because DMs allow it.

(put soap box here) - define good and evil in your games!

 

[buzzard]

Yeah... I mean, come on... This is what you were dealing with in the 2E PHB for the CN alignment description...



Whoah. How about that? Cool. When I copy-paste something from the Core Rules CD, I includes a little copyright tag... Hope that one entry is considered fair use...

You know I always thought there were plently more reasons I didn't like 2nd Ed. What kind of idiot came up with that definition for for CN?

buzzard

 

[hong]

Because DMs allow it.

(put soap box here) - define good and evil in your games!

Well, for starters, all hands are clearly evil.


Hong "but is it the LEFT hand, or the RIGHT hand?" Ooi

 

[buzzard]

Well, for starters, all hands are clearly evil.

All hands abandon ship.

buzzard

 

[Psion]

Because DMs allow it.

Not this one.

Everyone who plays a CN character in my game gets the "don't make me twist your arm to motivate you" lecture.

(I had thought about merely not warning them and letting their character wander off and ignore them, but that's just a waste of my time.)


Incidentally, the playtest 3e version was WORSE. Fortunately, they fixed it.

 

[diaglo]

What kind of idiot came up with that definition for for CN?

i could answer that. but it would just bring a whole rash of flames from the 2ed devoutees.

i still haven't got rid of the hong hives...