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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8313374" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I think too many people tend to think too extremely with respect to Chaos or Law when it comes to behavior either personal or societal. It's worth noting that no society is going to be too extreme along either line aside from utter paragons of the alignments that you might see in an extraplanar society. </p><p></p><p>In general, I'd expect a society that tilted Chaotic would be relatively flat in structure compared to a more Lawful one that would build in more hierarchical structure. Members filling the various roles in society would tend to be mutable and people would hold them more based on individual, personal characteristics rather than by some kind of hierarchical structural qualification like a hereditary aristocracy. India's caste structure indicates a Lawful bent, as does Rome's aristocratic/plutocratic/paternalistic structure or Feudal Japan's social hierarchy. Celtic societies mix in a bit more individual focus, probably quite enough to pull them well into Neutrality between Law and Chaos.</p><p>A society that trends Chaotic will have stronger elements of individual worth and value with the collective units shrinking in size from highly structured castes or clans down toward the nuclear family and individual.</p><p>I try to keep these sorts of things in mind when I'm describing towns and societies of relatively Chaotic cultures.</p><p></p><p>(wow, ninja'ed a bit by Dausuul)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8313374, member: 3400"] I think too many people tend to think too extremely with respect to Chaos or Law when it comes to behavior either personal or societal. It's worth noting that no society is going to be too extreme along either line aside from utter paragons of the alignments that you might see in an extraplanar society. In general, I'd expect a society that tilted Chaotic would be relatively flat in structure compared to a more Lawful one that would build in more hierarchical structure. Members filling the various roles in society would tend to be mutable and people would hold them more based on individual, personal characteristics rather than by some kind of hierarchical structural qualification like a hereditary aristocracy. India's caste structure indicates a Lawful bent, as does Rome's aristocratic/plutocratic/paternalistic structure or Feudal Japan's social hierarchy. Celtic societies mix in a bit more individual focus, probably quite enough to pull them well into Neutrality between Law and Chaos. A society that trends Chaotic will have stronger elements of individual worth and value with the collective units shrinking in size from highly structured castes or clans down toward the nuclear family and individual. I try to keep these sorts of things in mind when I'm describing towns and societies of relatively Chaotic cultures. (wow, ninja'ed a bit by Dausuul) [/QUOTE]
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