Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3199921" data-attributes="member: 926">I'm afraid you're complaint arises from a lack of understanding of 3E alignment.  Both of those people you described are Neutral, Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Neutral respectively.  Most people are Neutral.  Neutrals respond to people based on personal relationships, while Good people care for and try to help everyone regardless of who they are or where they come from, and Evil take advantage of, abuse, and and hurt everyone.  You aren't LG to your family and friends and LE to everyone else, you're just LN.A lot of people misunderstand alignment and thats what causes problems.  Most people out there are Neutral.  Being truly Good or Evil is an extreme.  I'd say that being Lawful or Chaotic has less impact and more people tend to one side or an other along that axis, but that could just be my personal bias.  But I really think it's a universal bias, as most conflicts in fantasy are Good vs Evil where Law and Chaos band together and ignore their differences to fight Evil.It's a descriptor for people of extreme conviction.  If you don't like it because you don't like having to label every NPC in your game, well...  most of them should probably be Neutral anyway, so its not that big a deal.  Neutral people are kind and caring to their families, give to charity, help little lost children they find on the street... and at the same time can be ruthless in business, cheat at their taxes, and in extreme cases commit murder in the throes of passion.  Neutrals actions depend on the situation, like most people in real life.  People with Good alignments are saintly.  People with Evil alignments are vile.      Those bandits waylaying people on the road to town?  Probably Neutral people in desperate circumstances, with maybe an Evil guy or two who bring out the worst in the rest of them.    The thief who steals your coin purse is probably some Neutral guy who fell into the career of criminal.  If he was Evil he'd probably mug you and go out of his way to make you suffer.</blockquote>

Verification