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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9885700" data-attributes="member: 23751">I don't think that's true, though.  A certain minority of the population is crazy(CN and CE). There aren't many of them around.  CG has a larger number and is not crazy, but is still a minority.  The overwhelming number of people on Earth are neutral.  They don't care who is in power, what the laws are, etc., so long as they can pretty much do their own thing and aren't harmed by those in power.It takes dedication to law, chaos, good or evil to move from neutral into those aspects of alignment that the vast majority of humans just don't have.  Not many have the dedication to law without regard to good or evil to become a judge or prosecutor.  Not many have the dedication to good to risk themselves standing up to oppression.  Not many have the dedication to evil required to rape and murder others. Not many are dedicated to seeing chaos reign.There's no need to move on, though.  Monsters(NPCs that are moral monsters and actual monsters) are..............monsters.  CE and CN can fit them just fine.Red dragons are might makes right.  Nothing there goes against what I have been arguing in this thread.  Death Knights have their legions who are bound to them by their might as a much more powerful undead. You don't have to treat undead right to get them to serve you.If the whim strikes a Death Knight to go invade the neighboring king with his legions, he will do that.  You don't need to be lawful to lead by strength and terror. And leading by strength and terror doesn't make you smart in your actions.Demons have plans, and those plans are like, go invade the first layer of hell and kill devils.  They outnumber devils by a huge margin, but their chaotic nature makes them so disorganized in battle that the lawful devils can hold their own.  Again, leading armies and having disorganized/insane plans isn't lawful or smart.Once more, this is just how the alignments have been written since 1e.  Not how I use them personally in my game.</blockquote>

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