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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9888961" data-attributes="member: 725">Alignment is separate from intelligence. But what entails intelligent behaviour in a D&D fantasy world is very different from what is intelligent behaviour in our real world. In our real world, the range of personal power is very limited. In a D&D fantasy world PCs can attain levels of personal power where they can tear apart modern battleships by hand, return from the dead, and be immune to most damage types. NPCs can go even further on that personal power scale. While in our real world the most powerful person (with virtually no personal power) in the world can still be shot permanently dead by a commoner with a handgun...As such, a Chaotic Evil person in a D&D fantasy world with very little personal power will act very differently from one with lots of personal power. The first is limited by their actions by others with more personal power, while the later has a lot less forces to deal with with more personal power, hence a Red Dragon will do more bad stuff openly in a low fantasy setting then a low-level bandit that's also Chaotic Evil.I also think there's a difference between intelligence and wisdom actions. A smart low level noble might act foolishly because they do not recognize that their power isn't personal power.Just because you're CE doesn't mean you'll put your hand in the fire because you want to, when you'll get burned. If you're immune to fire, that might be a different situation. If you like pain and can easily be healed, that might also be a different situation... In our real world burning your hands have real long lasting permanent consequences.</blockquote>

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