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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 100052" data-attributes="member: 891">I've actually been considering requiring this of all PCs.CN is all too often used as an excuse alignment for those who want to play with utter amoral abandon.There's a place for such roleplay; but not in my games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />In my opinion a properly CN character is not amoral at all. They are actively opposed to order and group unity but care nothing about the good and evil axiom. But it's rare to see it played this way. I did ban the alignment in my last game in order to head off these troubles. But it didn't help; I just got LG, CG, and whatever PCs that behaved the same way.So I think the answer really does lie in what Psion's trying to get players to do and then in finding some trick to get them to stick to it... That last part is the hard task with no 'magic answers'.Players who are a disruption with one alignment will be a disruption under any other alignment as well.A good player could take the most amoral annoying PC and play it in a way that improved the game for all involved; 'tricking' the character into going along by a series of events and choices that just happened to put them into the action in a constructive way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 100052, member: 891"] I've actually been considering requiring this of all PCs. CN is all too often used as an excuse alignment for those who want to play with utter amoral abandon. There's a place for such roleplay; but not in my games. :D In my opinion a properly CN character is not amoral at all. They are actively opposed to order and group unity but care nothing about the good and evil axiom. But it's rare to see it played this way. I did ban the alignment in my last game in order to head off these troubles. But it didn't help; I just got LG, CG, and whatever PCs that behaved the same way. So I think the answer really does lie in what Psion's trying to get players to do and then in finding some trick to get them to stick to it... That last part is the hard task with no 'magic answers'. Players who are a disruption with one alignment will be a disruption under any other alignment as well. A good player could take the most amoral annoying PC and play it in a way that improved the game for all involved; 'tricking' the character into going along by a series of events and choices that just happened to put them into the action in a constructive way. [/QUOTE]

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