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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Horror" data-source="post: 1958597" data-attributes="member: 26472">Interesting that you say that.  Just two weeks ago I was asked to describe the different alignment options to my players.  I described it as something like this:  There are two scales.  On the one scale you have people that believe in law, order and justice.  They believe that there is a system in place and that the system is there to protect their rights.  On the other end of this scale are the people who disregard the system.  They may or may not understand the system that governs society, or they may see it as flawed and choose to completely disregard it in favour of their own judgement.  In between the two extremes are people that understand the system and may or may not understand the need for it.  However, these people also understand that rules and regulations cannot always be right and thusly may at times opt to break the rules if the situation warrants it.On another scale you have good and evil.  Good is defined as people who as a general rule place other people above themselves.  It doesn't mean they give away all their possessions to more needy people or anything like that, but rather that they care about the wellbeing of their fellow man.  Opposite to good is evil, that is people who overall place their need above those of others.  Sometimes good people do selfish things, and sometimes evil people do selfless things, but overall they can be categorised as being either selfless or selfish.  In between the two you have neutral people - people who may one day help a starving man but the next day take away his only piece of bread.  They weight each decision on an individual basis, and cannot be said to overall be more selfish or selfless.Anyhow, based on how I view alignments I would say that destroying the world would have to be either neutral or evil.  You'll have to think about the group a little more before you can place them more precisely, but even if they believe they are doing good they could not really be classified as being good.I can't make any guess towards their lawful to chaotic placement.  Again, you have to think of how their organisation works, and of how they interact with their local systems of rulership.The Horror</blockquote>

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