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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5999267" data-attributes="member: 4937">To tell you the truth, in my experience as a DM, I think that maybe 5-10% of American players could possibly pull off a lawful character well.   America is so steeped in individualism and individuality and personal freedom, that most American players have a hard time even imagining what a lawful mind is like.  And that is one of the reasons that do such a terrible hash of it when they actually try to protray one (lawful stupid is the most common result).  If you don't know what the alignment of a character played by an American at the table is, guess chaotic.  Chaotic nuetral is the single most common alignment in practice and usually on paper in the games I have run. Conversely, those few players I've met that can pull off a lawful character usually find it impossible despite their best efforts to pull off a chaotic.  Their desire to conform to externally reviewable codes, their unease at whim, their tendency to define how they should behave in terms of duties to other persons or ideas rather than inner desires always ends up thwarting them.   They end up playing lawfuls that are duty bound to something other than the causes of the larger society, but still an external authority with a reviewable code of laws that governs them rather than an internal mutable and relative set of guidelines.</blockquote>