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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3410601" data-attributes="member: 8439">In our Savage Tide game, we are sailing the high seas and one character, who is of a nautical persuasion, is officially the captain of our ship. Now my character, who is quite chaotic, sees this merely as a coordinating position of &quot;the person who will make the ship go efficiently and avoid confusion in ship related emergencies.&quot; But he convinced the party that we needed to maintain a social fiction with the passengers and crew that he is The Captain, with the nice private cabin, an inflated treasure share (which we have agreed to privately pool and distibute evenly) and various social heirarchy perks. This has slowly started to wear on my character. She is about to privately inform the first mate (who the captain unilaterally exempted from a screening the party had agreed on for everyone)&nbsp; that the captain is not a higher authority over the rest of the party and that she needs to know and accept that to remain in such a sensitive position.But the interesting thing about this is, the &quot;captain&quot; is Lawful and is maintaining an elaborate charade of lying to multiple people for very lawful reason of wanting to maintain a heirarchy that tradition requires. My character is Chaotic and is wanting to just tell everyone the truth and let them cope with it or work on another ship. It seems to contrast a little with the stereotypical allignment assumption that law is truthful and chaos more likely to lie.Is lawfulness actually more honest, or just more likely to maintain social falsehoods to prop up traditions rather than tell personal lies for personal reasons?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 3410601, member: 8439"] In our Savage Tide game, we are sailing the high seas and one character, who is of a nautical persuasion, is officially the captain of our ship. Now my character, who is quite chaotic, sees this merely as a coordinating position of "the person who will make the ship go efficiently and avoid confusion in ship related emergencies." But he convinced the party that we needed to maintain a social fiction with the passengers and crew that he is The Captain, with the nice private cabin, an inflated treasure share (which we have agreed to privately pool and distibute evenly) and various social heirarchy perks. This has slowly started to wear on my character. She is about to privately inform the first mate (who the captain unilaterally exempted from a screening the party had agreed on for everyone) that the captain is not a higher authority over the rest of the party and that she needs to know and accept that to remain in such a sensitive position. But the interesting thing about this is, the "captain" is Lawful and is maintaining an elaborate charade of lying to multiple people for very lawful reason of wanting to maintain a heirarchy that tradition requires. My character is Chaotic and is wanting to just tell everyone the truth and let them cope with it or work on another ship. It seems to contrast a little with the stereotypical allignment assumption that law is truthful and chaos more likely to lie. Is lawfulness actually more honest, or just more likely to maintain social falsehoods to prop up traditions rather than tell personal lies for personal reasons? [/QUOTE]

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