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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3201437" data-attributes="member: 1465">Completely agree that Neutral is actually quite the norm. But also it depends on where you put the boundary, where does Good starts and where does Evil starts.All in all, the 3.0 PHB explanation of alignment still does a good job for those who occasionally take the time to re-read it  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> It actually tells that indeed being Good (as per the standard rules) implies to care for people/beings who aren't your relatives or friends, people you could decide not to bother yourself too much about and still you wouldn't be considered terrible for doing that.Neutral is what most of use are: caring a lot for those we know personally, but not going to be actively concerned to help strangers if it really costs. Charity does not turn you immediately good if what you give is irrelevant compared to what you've got, and most of us probably do charity as long as it's a reasonably little sacrifice, but how many would leave a profitable job to go working for the salvation army?I'm still talking about the game, I don't want to start an argument about real life... Just saying that the PHB explains quite well that if you're not really making a sensible sacrifice (losing something valuable, spending your time, or facing risks to your own life and safety) you're not really Good, you're probably Neutral.But then again, you can shift the border up or down: you don't have to shun all valuable possessions like St.Francis and live pennyless, you could just choose not to be rich if you otherwise could. You don't have to give up your life to save the sinners like Jesus Christ, but you may do so to save the innocent (and not necessarily without a fight...). And in the case of Evil, someone who cares for no one (not even his relatives) could be already in the Evil zone, without the need to be actively causing harm to others.</blockquote>

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