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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5365696" data-attributes="member: 92511">"Everyone's Friends...kinda. The Neutrals."TRUE NEUTRAL (N): "The Arbitrator" or "The Apathetic" A truly Neutral character is rather enigmatic. In the arguments for Order versus Freedom, Law versus Chaos, and even Good versus Evil the True Neutral character has no argument.This can be born from a lack of interest or concern. The N simply doesn't care who's right or wrong. It doesn't matter to the character whether Law or Chaos is dominant. Nor are they overly concerned with "good" or "evil" rule the day, but suffering is pretty much bad in anyone's book. They care how things will effect "#1" and act accordingly. It has selfishness, in a general way, while lacking the cruelty and uncaring for others the NE.Example 1: If the orcs kill his comrades, he might be killed himself so better help  these guys. Example 2: If elves put him in a holding cell, (because maybe he did help himself to some "sacred" fruit...it was sitting right there!) he's going to try to escape. He doesn't care if the orcs are evil or the elves are in accordance with their "sacred" (good) law. These things are bad for him.The other option for a character who would not argue along the Law/Good v. Chaos/Evil axses is the belief in a "universal/cosmic balance."The character might refrain from interfering in a clash of morals or ethics figuring that the universe will take care of itself...balance everything out...that things are and go about "as they should be." The other way one might treat the balance is to fight FOR it. In other words, when forces of Chaos begin to spread too much or destroy a force of good, the True Neutral might go fight the Chaos back...in a personal attempt to help maintain the balance.Flip the script, a large city is seeking to expand the "Goodness" of its "Law" and "Order" and to the surrounding farms and wildlands. The True Neutral character might fight this incursion of Law into an area that was already balanced...making the character appear to the city dwellers to be chaotic or evil. This, seems to me, has always been the attitude for the Druid class to maintain and the reason they originally could only be True Neutral. Protectors of "the Balance of Nature". They get involved when things are "out of whack"...which, for Druids, includes eradicating the "unnatural" such as aberrations and undead.There is no reason a non-druid N character couldn't maintain the same philosophy.So, in chosing this alignment a character is willing to either A) ignore the concepts/conflicts of Law/Chaos/Good/Evil entirely; B) ignore the concepts/conflicts insofar as they don't effect you. If they do, then you react. Or C) fight purposely to maintain a balance among the concepts for the overall security and stability of the cosmos.  to be continued...</blockquote>

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