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<blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 4583798" data-attributes="member: 79670"><p>They're fine as-is, though I'd prefer something a little less fey and a little more 'I am the smart magical elf, that's the woodsy warrior elf over there'. </p><p></p><p>Personally 2e/3e Eladrin make absolutely no sense whatsoever to me as exemplars of Chaotic Good. Seriously, they way they're written up makes them sound as lawful as the Archons and less good to boot. They're too bizzare rules-y court-y social structure-y fey to ever be believeable to me as CG. NG maybe, even True Neutral, but CG? Wha? Actually, someone who actually likes them and thinks they actually work as what they're supposed to be want to explain it to me? Because I personally think they're the worst of the exemplars for representing their alignment and they just don't work for me. <_></p><p></p><p>Maybe I'm just coloured by my current character's take on Chaotic Good, which basically boils down to the Wiccan Rede, 'An it harm none, do what ye will'. Very very much personal rights and freedom and not caring what anyone thinks or tells him to do. He'd tell his own god to shove it if his god tried to tell him to do something he didn't think was the right, good thing to do. He's a benevolent anarchist. Incite rebellion where needed, break the stupid rules to prove their stupidity where needed and remain merciful and compassionate and make sure that the rulebreaking and rebellion inciting serves the purpose of good. (Of course this is also pretty much my own take on it as well, so Eladrin really clash against that for me. Yeah, mine's a more humanist 'this is what a person of this alignment might think like' take on it rather than some grand philisophical take on it, but I don't get where Eladrin would be matching some grand philisophical take on it either)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nai_Calus, post: 4583798, member: 79670"] They're fine as-is, though I'd prefer something a little less fey and a little more 'I am the smart magical elf, that's the woodsy warrior elf over there'. Personally 2e/3e Eladrin make absolutely no sense whatsoever to me as exemplars of Chaotic Good. Seriously, they way they're written up makes them sound as lawful as the Archons and less good to boot. They're too bizzare rules-y court-y social structure-y fey to ever be believeable to me as CG. NG maybe, even True Neutral, but CG? Wha? Actually, someone who actually likes them and thinks they actually work as what they're supposed to be want to explain it to me? Because I personally think they're the worst of the exemplars for representing their alignment and they just don't work for me. <_> Maybe I'm just coloured by my current character's take on Chaotic Good, which basically boils down to the Wiccan Rede, 'An it harm none, do what ye will'. Very very much personal rights and freedom and not caring what anyone thinks or tells him to do. He'd tell his own god to shove it if his god tried to tell him to do something he didn't think was the right, good thing to do. He's a benevolent anarchist. Incite rebellion where needed, break the stupid rules to prove their stupidity where needed and remain merciful and compassionate and make sure that the rulebreaking and rebellion inciting serves the purpose of good. (Of course this is also pretty much my own take on it as well, so Eladrin really clash against that for me. Yeah, mine's a more humanist 'this is what a person of this alignment might think like' take on it rather than some grand philisophical take on it, but I don't get where Eladrin would be matching some grand philisophical take on it either) [/QUOTE]
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