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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8381862" data-attributes="member: 2209">Formians (extraplanar colonizing ant person beings) are another classic LN monster, though there are those who consider that a problematic designation as they regularly take slaves and are not designated evil. WotC made them the big LN exemplar in 3e.When the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17002/Monster-Manual-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">1e MM</a> came out it was mostly designed around the 5 point alignment system (Neutral, CE, LE, LG, CG as shown in the chart referenced earlier) so you do not see a bunch of CN or LN monsters in the core classic monsters but mostly in things that come later as AD&D moved to the 9 point alignment system.Githzerai were originally Chaotic Neutral in the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50012/Fiend-Folio-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">1e FF</a> but were able to be monks (who in 1e needed to be lawful) and their characterization as being in the Chaos of Limbo eventually flipped from the chaos plane as a natural fit to a characterization of their monk monasteries showing how their extreme lawfulness can be forged and tempered out of ultimate chaos and in 5e they are Lawful Neutral.</blockquote>