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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 2513304" data-attributes="member: 17012">Many people make the assumption that to be Lawful means to be law-abiding, an understandable mistake since that's what the definition of the word is.  It all goes back to Moorcock and his terminology.  A better name for Law would be Order.  Orderly Good just doesn't have the same ring to it, though....  Methodic Good?  Systematic Good?  Hrm.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> In any case, you're right in your assessment of the alignment.  Lawful people are simply more likely to be law-abiding, since they are naturally organized and a code of laws provides the framework which they need for their lives.  Unless they are LN, however, they will be more influenced by their morals than their ethics.  A Lawful Evil person should have no problem breaking the law to achieve his goals--just look at how many LE crime lords there are!  The same holds true for a Lawful Good person, the only difference being their goals (selfish vs. selfless).Lawful characters are less likely to try a different approach to problem solving, however, since that involves leaving their comfort zone.  "Thinking outside the box" shouldn't come easy to Lawful characters.In a Lawful Good or Lawful Neutral society, the laws are in place to protect the people from themselves.  In a Lawful Evil society, the laws are in place to make the overlords rich and powerful at the expense of the people (although it could be argued that the progenitors of a LE society honestly believed that harsh rules were the best way to protect the people from themselves).  A Lawful character of a moral alignment opposite of a society's moral alignment chafes at the regulations and would be more likely to break the law while there.</blockquote>

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