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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlViking" data-source="post: 9885665" data-attributes="member: 6906980">Back to the OP.  If you think a chaotic person only acts arbitrarily then chaotic alignments are pointless and don't represent any significant portion of any species.  Even demons have a hierarchy enforced through violence and a demon that just randomly attacks other demons isn't going to last long.  So if that's your stance, no you can't have an intelligent CE NPC.  Move on.  Make them NE that ignores all laws, external definition of morality and does whatever they think they can get away with.  Maybe they make decisions arbitrarily that may include sudden acts of violence that are not well thought out, even ones they may regret later.  I would say a rose by any other name would still be CE but you do you.Or ... look at what some CE monsters do for inspiration.  Red dragons for example ".... take whatever they desire and burn to ash anything that stands in their way .... believe themselves to be the greatest ... of all creatures. To them, pillaging and conquering are their right .... other creatures are privileged to serve them."  Another random monster (one I happened to be looking at for inspiration for an NPC) is the death knight "Champions of evil, death knights are armor-clad, skeletal warlords. Combining devastating martial prowess and blasphemous magic, these undying tyrants lead unholy legions against the living or brood in cursed citadels. Every death knight is haunted by a legacy of tragedy and dishonor that drives it to commit greater evils."  Not sure how you can lead unholy legions is everything you do is arbitrary.Demons are probably the extreme examples of an entire group of monsters having a CE alignment yet they have armies and commanders of armies.  They still have rulers with goals and plans.  The hierarchy is just maintained through fear and violence not by laws or pre-established hierarchies.  That Vrock doesn't serve in the army led by a Balor because they respect the Balor's title, they do it because they're allowed to do much of what they want to anyway and if they don't follow rules the Balor will have them for lunch.</blockquote>

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