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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9365093" data-attributes="member: 42582">This is not stated anywhere in the PHB or DMG.I don't think that latter thins is stated anywhere in the PHB or DMG either. As far as what chaos means, the focus is on individualism and self-actualisation. The contrast is with falling social norms and externally-dictated precepts.Well, my view is that the core question that is framed by Gygax - namely, is Law or Chaos the proper way to ensure human flourishing - remains as cogent now as it did then.Whether it's cogent in some ultimate sense I don't know, but I don't think it's obviously absurd - although it may have had more immediate currency in 1968!In my view this way of talking about alignment makes no sense, because if they are just habits then why would LG people conflict with CG people, or for that matter with CE people? This is the issue with Planescape - the contrast between LG, CG and CE seems to be purely an aesthetic one, not a genuine moral or even political one.</blockquote>