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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 4660948" data-attributes="member: 27897">Why not just call them all &quot;evil&quot; and consider everything else to be a quirk of personality? As to the last, 'unaligned' with similar odd personality quirks would also work. Do you really need a pideonhole for every little variation in how someone behaves?Look at artifacts, for instance. Artifacts have goals. If the character's personality doesn't fit the goals of the artifact, then it becomes 'displeased' and doesn't get along with the character. That eliminates an alignment requirement for them by making class, personality, and goals paramount. I play my Eladrin Warlock as someone who is looking for a quick way to magical power. In terms of a culture that does everything by considering the ramifications over human generations of time, that's very uncharacteristic. As an unaligned, he isn't constrained to following societal rules in order to obtain this power and has been known to Arcane Lock the odd Dwarf in a room containing certain death, when his means to obtaining those goals was threatened. Other than that, he's the nicest Eladrin wearing a face mask you're likely to meet. He's not evil so much as expedient where this specific goal is concerned, and that is a quirk of personality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 4660948, member: 27897"] Why not just call them all "evil" and consider everything else to be a quirk of personality? As to the last, 'unaligned' with similar odd personality quirks would also work. Do you really need a pideonhole for every little variation in how someone behaves? Look at artifacts, for instance. Artifacts have goals. If the character's personality doesn't fit the goals of the artifact, then it becomes 'displeased' and doesn't get along with the character. That eliminates an alignment requirement for them by making class, personality, and goals paramount. I play my Eladrin Warlock as someone who is looking for a quick way to magical power. In terms of a culture that does everything by considering the ramifications over human generations of time, that's very uncharacteristic. As an unaligned, he isn't constrained to following societal rules in order to obtain this power and has been known to Arcane Lock the odd Dwarf in a room containing certain death, when his means to obtaining those goals was threatened. Other than that, he's the nicest Eladrin wearing a face mask you're likely to meet. He's not evil so much as expedient where this specific goal is concerned, and that is a quirk of personality. [/QUOTE]

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