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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3693521" data-attributes="member: 2067">Very nice effort!...I do agree with this, however. Chaos is not simply the absence of Law, but it is an agenda onto itself. Having any alignment other than Neutral is a commitment to an external ideal. For Law, you pretty much nailed it. Chaos, on the other hand, is the ideal of freedom, individuality, and change. It's not that Chaotic beings don't have an external set of ideas, it's that their external set of ideas, by the nature of those ideas, isn't necessarily consistent. They believe in fluidity; a Lawful character does not. I think it's also important to ensure that you're not depicting any alignment as monolithic. The basic principles of Law you list are solid, but also seem to all try to achieve a certain perfection. It's certainly possible to be Lawful without striving for the perfection of the Inevitables, and it's entirely likely that two lawful people, both fully within their alignments, have disagreements as to what order is best, or how strongly to apply that order.A Lawful character is certainly capable of making decisions on her own; those decisions will be guided by the principles of order and logic that have governed their lives, and it's always possible, if one set of standards falls, to replace them with a new one, as long as it is an ordered set of standards (the Lawful Revolution). Similarly, a Chaotic character doesn't often randomly change their actions -- they consistently follow a pattern of adherence to standards of freedom, individuality, and change.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 3693521, member: 2067"] Very nice effort! ...I do agree with this, however. Chaos is not simply the absence of Law, but it is an agenda onto itself. Having any alignment other than Neutral is a commitment to an [I]external[/I] ideal. For Law, you pretty much nailed it. Chaos, on the other hand, is the ideal of freedom, individuality, and change. It's not that Chaotic beings don't have an external set of ideas, it's that their external set of ideas, by the nature of those ideas, isn't necessarily consistent. They believe in fluidity; a Lawful character does not. I think it's also important to ensure that you're not depicting any alignment as monolithic. The basic principles of Law you list are solid, but also seem to all try to achieve a certain perfection. It's certainly possible to be Lawful without striving for the perfection of the Inevitables, and it's entirely likely that two lawful people, both fully within their alignments, have disagreements as to what order is best, or how strongly to apply that order. A Lawful character is certainly capable of making decisions on her own; those decisions will be guided by the principles of order and logic that have governed their lives, and it's always possible, if one set of standards falls, to replace them with a new one, as long as it is an ordered set of standards (the Lawful Revolution). Similarly, a Chaotic character doesn't often randomly change their actions -- they consistently follow a pattern of adherence to standards of freedom, individuality, and change. [/QUOTE]

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