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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 344358" data-attributes="member: 5834">ReSome folks have a seriously radical view of the Chaotic Neutral alignment. I play a Chaotic Neutral barbarian. He is nothing like some of these people say a Chaotic Neutral should be, but he is still Chaotic Neutral. For example, his word means something to him. He may not follow a liege lord or the laws of others, but he follows the laws aka culture of his own people and in his culture, his word means something. He must adhere to it or lose his honor amongst his people. He will not do this. If my barbarian says he will help or do as he has said, you can be damn sure he will live up to his word.Chaotic Neutrals in my campaign generally must play within the following guidelines:1. Willing to do a heroic deed for free on occassion should he or she deem it worthy, but be just as willing to do a deed for no more reason than receiving a good amount of gold. They are not beholden to good or evil, but generally don't engage in evil because it can give them a bad reputation and it is harder to trust evil people. They definitely have mercernary sensibilities, just not evil sensibilities. For example, a chaotic neutral might be hired to help raid a village or town to plunder it, but they would not hire on to collect babies for sacrifice to Cyric. 2. Not follow the laws of a place unless they are enforced by people strong enough to enforce them. Chaotic Neutrals don't respect the laws of others just because they are there. They follow the laws of the strong or their own code or nothing at all.3. Travels often and is restless and ill-at-ease with the same surroundings. They dont' like sitting idle and have a great deal of trouble with order and routine.4. Doesn't abide servitude or slavery for himself, but feels no obligation to free others unless he or she was raised to dislike slavery or servitude. I just don't see Chaotic Neutral people as total wild people who can do what they wish. Chaotic Neutral is an alignment that is actually one of the easier alignments to play and DM. A chaotic neutral person is very individualistic with no loyatlies to good nor evil. They do not engage in indiscriminately good or evil acts aka they don't kill smiths for shoeing their horse wrong. Murder is evil. Murder without cause is Chaotic, murder with cause is lawful. That is the only difference.If you are playing a Chaotic Neutral person, you are most likely some free wheeling, mercernary type individual who is always looking out for number one. You don't enjoy lawful towns or societies, and probably love to adventure. Chaotic Neutral is a great alignment that is perfect for mercernary adventurer types.If you are playing a person who would kill smith for shoeing your horse wrong, you are chaotic evil, not neutral. If you try to blame it on a murderous rage, then your character has serious mental problems not alignment problems. Chaotic neutrals don't fly off the handle. They are just as likely to murder or not murder as anyone else if they are not psychotic, but have not qualms about killing a man who has personally wronged them though they law might not agree. Just not for something so unbelievably trivial.</blockquote>

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