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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6619019" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>The Abyss is literally CE, not CN.</p><p></p><p>CN is described as:</p><p></p><p><em>A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn't strive to protect others' freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random.</em></p><p></p><p>The above does not infer destruction or evil in any way. It simply describes a person who values his own liberty and freedoms, without doing either evil or good deeds in the process. He doesn't murder people (that would be evil), but he doesn't go out of his way to help people either (that would be good).</p><p></p><p>He'll break into your house and steal from you if he needed money. But if you wake up and catch him, he wont kill you out of hand to cover his tracks (although he will tie you up, and will fight back in self defense, using lethal force if absolutely necessary).</p><p></p><p>A CE villain on the other hand would also break into your house and steal from you. He'll also kill you (and your whole family) in your sleep if doing so is convenient for him, makes it less likely he'll get caught, and he thinks he'll get away with it.</p><p></p><p>A CG hero would break into the local oppressive barons house and steal from him (to undermine his tyrannical rule over the local peasants). He would then redistribute the a large share of the wealth to the poor to fund resistance against the baron, and free any political prisoners locked in the dungeon on the way out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 6619019, member: 6788736"] The Abyss is literally CE, not CN. CN is described as: [I]A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn't strive to protect others' freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random.[/I] The above does not infer destruction or evil in any way. It simply describes a person who values his own liberty and freedoms, without doing either evil or good deeds in the process. He doesn't murder people (that would be evil), but he doesn't go out of his way to help people either (that would be good). He'll break into your house and steal from you if he needed money. But if you wake up and catch him, he wont kill you out of hand to cover his tracks (although he will tie you up, and will fight back in self defense, using lethal force if absolutely necessary). A CE villain on the other hand would also break into your house and steal from you. He'll also kill you (and your whole family) in your sleep if doing so is convenient for him, makes it less likely he'll get caught, and he thinks he'll get away with it. A CG hero would break into the local oppressive barons house and steal from him (to undermine his tyrannical rule over the local peasants). He would then redistribute the a large share of the wealth to the poor to fund resistance against the baron, and free any political prisoners locked in the dungeon on the way out. [/QUOTE]
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