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<blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 6335853" data-attributes="member: 529">Chaotic Good is more of a stretch, but I think with some effort you could spin it so that just about anything makes sense:&nbsp; She believes in strength and supports laws that she knows are harmful...but only because she's a fanatical soldier raised in a Spartan like city-state as a berserk shock troop.&nbsp; On a personal level, she's kind and generous and really terrible at staying in one place, organization, or maintaining relationships.&nbsp; Maybe she's not good at following orders; even if one believes in a military structure and its laws, it doesn't mean they are good at being in the military, so that's why she's now an adventurer. She rationalizes the horrors of their laws which involve mass executions as being necessary evils to protect themselves from traitors.&nbsp; She might be a little nuts.&nbsp; So yeah, a bit of work, but more interesting, and historically I think I described someone who could be a deserter from the <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dahomeys-women-warriors-88286072/" target="_blank">Dahomey Amazons</a>.The value of alignment is certainly questionable when these new traits seem more interesting, but I sort of like the interplay that can exist between them when used as exceptions...a more basic example than the convolution above would be &quot;He's Lawful Good but Greedy and will do whatever it takes to become wealthy.&quot; (edit: note that greedy is listed as an evil Ideal, but obviously could be a flaw too, either way I see no reason why a Good character shouldn't take it)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gargoyle, post: 6335853, member: 529"] Chaotic Good is more of a stretch, but I think with some effort you could spin it so that just about anything makes sense: She believes in strength and supports laws that she knows are harmful...but only because she's a fanatical soldier raised in a Spartan like city-state as a berserk shock troop. On a personal level, she's kind and generous and really terrible at staying in one place, organization, or maintaining relationships. Maybe she's not good at following orders; even if one believes in a military structure and its laws, it doesn't mean they are good at being in the military, so that's why she's now an adventurer. She rationalizes the horrors of their laws which involve mass executions as being necessary evils to protect themselves from traitors. She might be a little nuts. So yeah, a bit of work, but more interesting, and historically I think I described someone who could be a deserter from the [URL="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/dahomeys-women-warriors-88286072/"]Dahomey Amazons[/URL]. The value of alignment is certainly questionable when these new traits seem more interesting, but I sort of like the interplay that can exist between them when used as exceptions...a more basic example than the convolution above would be "He's Lawful Good but Greedy and will do whatever it takes to become wealthy." (edit: note that greedy is listed as an evil Ideal, but obviously could be a flaw too, either way I see no reason why a Good character shouldn't take it) [/QUOTE]

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