Alignment Guidelines

[Uller]

These are good. But of course no character conforms specifically to all the values within any one alignment. If you want to use these in a game, you should pick maybe 5 or 10 of them that apply to your character. Prioritize them and THEN pick the alignment that best applies.

For instance...I believe that an individual is responsible for his own actions and the consequences there of. That would make me kind of chaotic. Then again, I also believe in tradition and the rule of legitimate authority...which would make me kind of lawful...

Real people don't fit into 9 nice neat categories...there are shades of gray and even cross-overs that don't necessarily make sense. The only excpetions are beings who have taken sides in the struggle between Good and Evil and/or Law and Chaos. These creatures would be more likely to strictly adhere to an alignment for the sake of that alignment.

In other words...for most characters, behavior and beleif systems come first and alignment is chosen based on that.

 

[Wolf72]

I manifest *BUMP*

 

[Greatwyrm]

This is something along the same lines I made up a while ago. Sometimes I have too much free time.

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Alignments Explained

Here is a simple way to understand D&D alignments. Using the phrase, “You’ve got to break some eggs to make an omelet,” as the baseline, here they are.

Chaotic Good: You’ve got to break some eggs to make an omelet.

Lawful Good: All creations are precious and must be defended at all cost. How dare you propose such a thing as breaking eggs!

Neutral Good: As long as the person is really hungry, it’s okay to break an egg or two to make them a nice omelet.

Lawful Neutral: The destruction of the egg is irrelevant. Omelets must be made, so eggs must be broken.

True Neutral: Some eggs are broken and some are not. Such is the way of the cosmos.

Chaotic Neutral: Woo-hoo! Let’s break some eggs! What omelet?

Lawful Evil: Break the eggs. Make the omelet. Bribe the health department to close down all the other omelet makers and then jack up your prices.

Neutral Evil: I don’t care who’s eggs they are. I want an omelet and I’m breaking some eggs.

Chaotic Evil: Break the eggs! Kill the chicken! Stab the guy who wanted the omelet!