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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3555973" data-attributes="member: 37198">On the one hand, a chaotic society sounds a lot like Vegas.  You can do pretty much whatever you want, everything's always going on, its food and games and spectacle and all manner of earthly delights.  On the other hand, its hard not to think of the powers of Vegas as strongly LE-style organizations, and the CN-appearance of the city is just a facade for the tourists.An old DM of mine had an interesting take on drow politics (going back to 1e, when we were pretty much making it up as we went along).  Drow were typically CE, but their society looked a lot like an LE one.  His rationale was that the laws of the drow society were so rigid and restrictive was that the only way to get anything done was to circumvent them.  Drow laws were like a web, but followers of the spider goddess didn't stick to them.PotC 3's pirate council [spoiler]looked pretty chaotic, but they followed the pirate code to the letter, even if it was more like guidelines.  They guy who suggested not following the book was shot.[/spoiler]  Plus, ships tend to have one captain who is in a position of nigh-unquestioned authority, not exactly a model of lawlessness.  Tortuga from PotC1 though looked pretty lawless.  Any town where Mayor-dipping is its own sport can probably lay claim to CN (at least one type of it).  The line about the city being cosmopolitan makes me think of the movie Tombstone (probably because I just watched it).  Even though Doc used the term ironically, that town was pretty lawless.  The sheriff was a businessman and the marshal only really intervened when someone shot someone.  Also, there's Bartertown.  On the one hand, they had a pretty strict rule about no violence.  On the other hand, their method of deciding punishment was a big wheel.  That seemed like a pretty chaotic method of enforcing the law.</blockquote>

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