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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8562014" data-attributes="member: 2209">&quot;For those that find Alignment useful, what does &quot;Lawful&quot; mean to you?&quot;I find alignment useful as a DM.I use it to give a roleplaying hook to a monster or NPC.I also used it heavily in 3e/Pathfinder as a cosmic force descriptor with mechanical effects.As a roleplaying hook alignment is an add on dimension after you get a monster's description.So a LE orc is portrayed differently than a CE orc. A lawful fey might be portrayed with a focus on the weird rules that bind fey interactions, they might be a devoted servant to some fey lord or a cause, they might be a leader with a grand plan and vision, etc.Law has a bunch of different connotations, any of them could be an interesting roleplay hook. It can vary from monster to monster, NPC to NPC. It does not need to be consistent.As a cosmic force I used to house rule assign constructs a [LAW] descriptor the same way I gave fey [CHAOS] and undead [EVIL] to increase the mechanical impacts of cosmic alignment forces in D&amp;D/Pathfinder. I also gave planetouched and fiendish type templates and divine caster classes the descriptors of their planar connection whether they were alignment or elemental or other.I have no use for policing alignment roleplay roles on PCs. I usually divorced the 3e mechanics of PC alignment from roleplay, so a paladin could be [GOOD] and interact mechanically as such with supernatural [EVIL] but I do not want to micromanage how a PC should act.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8562014, member: 2209"] "For those that find Alignment useful, what does "Lawful" mean to you?" I find alignment useful as a DM. I use it to give a roleplaying hook to a monster or NPC. I also used it heavily in 3e/Pathfinder as a cosmic force descriptor with mechanical effects. As a roleplaying hook alignment is an add on dimension after you get a monster's description. So a LE orc is portrayed differently than a CE orc. A lawful fey might be portrayed with a focus on the weird rules that bind fey interactions, they might be a devoted servant to some fey lord or a cause, they might be a leader with a grand plan and vision, etc. Law has a bunch of different connotations, any of them could be an interesting roleplay hook. It can vary from monster to monster, NPC to NPC. It does not need to be consistent. As a cosmic force I used to house rule assign constructs a [LAW] descriptor the same way I gave fey [CHAOS] and undead [EVIL] to increase the mechanical impacts of cosmic alignment forces in D&D/Pathfinder. I also gave planetouched and fiendish type templates and divine caster classes the descriptors of their planar connection whether they were alignment or elemental or other. I have no use for policing alignment roleplay roles on PCs. I usually divorced the 3e mechanics of PC alignment from roleplay, so a paladin could be [GOOD] and interact mechanically as such with supernatural [EVIL] but I do not want to micromanage how a PC should act. [/QUOTE]

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