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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2488327" data-attributes="member: 18549">Chaotic evil is the best alignment to play because you can perform any act and nobody is going to tell you you're playing against alignment.  You will never hear "you're chaotic and that's a lawful act" the way you would hear the reverse if you are lawful.  You will never hear "your alignment just shifted one point toward good" if you happen to kill an evil foe or perform an act of questionable villainy.  You can act like a perfectly normal Joe Adventurer who goes into dungeons, rescues townsfolk, kills monsters, takes their stuff, and spends the spoils on ale at the tavern, and never need to worry about alignment again.  All you need to do is write CE on your character sheet.  Or, if you're afraid of paladins, CN works in a pinch.Law and Good are constantly being persecuted by obnoxious DMs who don't hold the other alignments to the same unbearably strict standards.  If someone is trying to kill you, you owe them nothing.  NOTHING.  No mercy, no quarter, no surrender, no fair trial back in town.  Just because today in our non-martial society we are very careful to write our laws to prohibit killing if at all possible doesn't mean that the same will be true in a society where people with swords are running around trying to take people's money away.  And hell, this was technically self-defense.  They were going to kill the mage, guaranteed, if they had been given a chance.  They would strip down his lifeless body, sell his shoes for the coppers, and laugh while they did it.They knew what they were getting into when they attacked: a life or death situation.  They shouldn't have been there.And yeah, how is killing someone quietly in his sleep (on the field of battle) worse than searing off the top inch of his flesh with a fireball, leaving him to twitch and scream as he dies not from injuries, since his wounds are cauterized, but from shock as his nervous system goes into spasm, or from infection several hours later?  Or how about phantasmal killer, that not only kills the victim, but rapes his mind first?  Or baleful polymorph, which traps the victim in a small, squirming prison until he lives out his days or gets eaten by some predator?  Given a choice, I'd take "death by sleep spell" over the alternatives.  Seriously, if sleep is evil, give it the [evil] descriptor so there will be no ambiguity.</blockquote>

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