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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3662334" data-attributes="member: 2067">All sentient beings can experience emotion. It's even occasionally suggested that demons and devils and yugoloths can have a twisted, macabre, wicked sort of love, which is usually such a noble feeling...Chaotic beings tend to be more slaves to their emotions, more impetuous about it. I feel angry, so I kill things. I feel happy so I laugh maniacally. I feel scared, so I run away. There's no long-term planning to their emotional experience, and Chaotic mindsets don't tend to consider others as much, so there's no real care about how that'll affect anyone else.Lawful beings tend to be able to manipulate emotions more, to experience them, but "rise above" them, to see what lies beyond them. They can understand that lashing out now may mean facing trial later, that fleeing combat now may allow the enemy to get more powerful. They can consider others: if I kill them, their family might come looking for me. If I save them, I'll be showered with gifts.That's why the Sith code is tentatively Chaotic: it says to be a slave to your emotions, to lash out in anger, to run away in fear. But in Vader and Palpatine's system, those emotions aren't the *point* of it. Rather, the point of it is power, dominance, and control. They give into fear now, to gain power over other's fear later. I think it is a mistake to assume that Lawful = Emotionless Logic and Chaos = Impetuous Emotion, but both are implied, and the exemplars of Law are pretty emotionless logic machines (modrons or inevitables or even formians) and the exemplars of Chaos are quite emotional (eladrin, tanar'ri, the drinking halls of ysgard and the screaming insanity of pandemonium). This is even supported in the rules: the Paladin, a bastion of Law, suppresses the emotion of fear. The Monk, a student of order, gains bonuses against Enchantment spells (spells that manipulate your emotional state). The Bard, who focuses on emotional effects in music, cannot be Lawful. The Barbarian, who looses control in a fury of Rage, cannot be Lawful.</blockquote>

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