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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3517018" data-attributes="member: 2067">IMXP, most uses of alignment that turn out negative do so because they're not really using it according to the 3e method or they have some preconceived notions about what they're "supposed" to do. So with a group like that, alignment is better dead than alive.But it's immensely useful to describe motives and philosophies for characters, IMXP. Say your character wants to be feared as a ruthless warlord because of a weak childhood of abuse. You may be both Chaotic and Evil, but you'd be a very different kind of CE from the barbarian prince of slaughter, and a very different kind of CE from a tanar'ri lord.When you abandon the idea that all CE people believe the same thing and act the same way and have a way they're "supposed" to be, it gets a lot easier to use those words as a description, rather than a class: you believe in individual autonomy and you delight in your own power, disregarding the value of the lives of everyone you kill on your way to the top. That doesn't mean you can't work with an LG character, either, as long as you're facing a common enemy: maybe the current evil king who rules the lands with an iron fist. The LG character wants him overthrown (so benevolence can be restored), the CE character wants him overthrown (so he can take his place), and until he is, they can work together.</blockquote>