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<blockquote data-quote="DarthDiablo" data-source="post: 3748281" data-attributes="member: 55048">While I agree the concepts of Law &amp; Chaos are important to flavor, they should not be rule.&nbsp; Not as much rule as Good &amp; Evil should be anyway.&nbsp; Your LE dictator would probably bend/break laws to furter his personal gain, thus making him more NE or CE.&nbsp; Why not just Evil then?&nbsp; Even if he has Lawful tendencies.As someone else stated Chaos implies randomness or craziness.&nbsp; While they (law/chaos) work well in concept, they are not so good for rule.&nbsp; CN can get away with anything as long as they don't do too much of one thing.&nbsp; LG are very restricted.&nbsp; LE can get away with more because even if they break the law, it's still within they're evil nature to be self-serving.&nbsp; They just don't like to get caught.&nbsp; By that definition most politicians are LE.&nbsp; Even if most of us live in a supposed called LG society.Am I correct in assuming your concept is probably more like Star Wars.&nbsp; The LE Empire rules while NG/CG freedom fighters are the heroes?&nbsp; Speaking of Heroes,&nbsp; I think that show is one of the best portrayals of why the current alignment system doesn't fit good (good as in well portrayed, not alignment) characters/people.&nbsp; You can gtry to give those characters alignments, but almost all of them do something that falls out of the one they mostly fit into.&nbsp; The world is a grey place.&nbsp; That's why IMO alignment is better used as a tool than a rule.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DarthDiablo, post: 3748281, member: 55048"] While I agree the concepts of Law & Chaos are important to flavor, they should not be rule. Not as much rule as Good & Evil should be anyway. Your LE dictator would probably bend/break laws to furter his personal gain, thus making him more NE or CE. Why not just Evil then? Even if he has Lawful tendencies. As someone else stated Chaos implies randomness or craziness. While they (law/chaos) work well in concept, they are not so good for rule. CN can get away with anything as long as they don't do too much of one thing. LG are very restricted. LE can get away with more because even if they break the law, it's still within they're evil nature to be self-serving. They just don't like to get caught. By that definition most politicians are LE. Even if most of us live in a supposed called LG society. Am I correct in assuming your concept is probably more like Star Wars. The LE Empire rules while NG/CG freedom fighters are the heroes? Speaking of Heroes, I think that show is one of the best portrayals of why the current alignment system doesn't fit good (good as in well portrayed, not alignment) characters/people. You can gtry to give those characters alignments, but almost all of them do something that falls out of the one they mostly fit into. The world is a grey place. That's why IMO alignment is better used as a tool than a rule. [/QUOTE]

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