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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2603548" data-attributes="member: 7240"><p>Yeah -- and this is absurd. Besides, the mayor of Sunnydale isn't plotting to achieve an orderly new society, he's working towards anarchically devouring the world -- not a lawful goal; just lawful means.Thanks! It's a pleasure to be in a dialogue where we can see one another's points. Normally, when one part of the SRD says one thing and another part says another thing that might be contradictory or consistent with it, you assume that both statements are true. Usually when people try to get around the problems of alignment, they argue that this statement somehow makes the other statements in the rules untrue. NPCs can be homicidal lunatics with no long-term impulse control and still be very different from one another. Just look at all the different serial killer characters they make for American TV shows and movies every year. The fact is that you can read the rules so that this section and the section describing CE are simultaneously true. Therefore, in any normal understanding of the rules, you should.So what? Which thing leads to the other doesn't change the way in which alignment and personality correlate.As I said to Umbran, I find it telling that even alignment's defenders house-rule it. Doesn't this suggest a major rewrite/overhaul is necessary?</p></blockquote><p></p>