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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2761927" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think you miss the entire point here. Exalted means GOOD. It does not mean Chaotic.An Exalted Chaotic Good character will not be a souped up version of Chaotic Good, rather, s/he will be Chaotic Good Good character. The Good portion gets souped up, not the Chaotic portion.And, I've always had a problem with this type of definition of Chaotic Good (or chaotic in general) that you listed above anyway.Here is what I told the players for my new campaign:The problem with the "rebel" concept of Chaotic Good is that all Elven communities would disintegrate into chaos and civil war and there would be no elves. Ditto for other chaotic races. There is a difference between chaos and anarchy, but the rebel definition is closer to anarchy.Getting back to the subject of Exalted, I think that many people have this concept that Exalted means "True Fighter of Evil". That only occurs in my campaign if the Deity the Exalted character is following focuses on fighting evil. But, most Exalted characters in my campaign (and we will probably only have one PC out of six who might go this route) should be more interested in charity, mercy, helping others, healing others, forgiveness, etc., and violence and destroying evil should be much lower on their priority list.In fact, I'm hoping that the campaign will someday get to the point that even though the PCs have a Good alignment, that they will not just destroy evil to destroy evil. Instead, they will sometimes work with evil enemies to refocus their goals. Getting one Evil Empire to focus on the strength and well being of its citizens, thereby leaning that country towards neutral, can do a lot more than killing the leaders of the country (since the vacuum will just be filled back up with other evil leaders).</blockquote>

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