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Message: <blockquote data-quote="avigor" data-source="post: 3606922" data-attributes="member: 48877">Well, I probably won't see him for a while, but I'll try.We do use the nine alignments system, and I do mean becoming evil by becoming NPCs.As for good and evil preferring chaos or law, I read somewhere (can't remember where; try lookng at Exalted Deeds or the Planar Handbook, I dunno) that the alignments could be represented as a "wheel" of sorts, with neutral good at the top, neutral evil at the bottom, lawful neutral at the left, and chaotic neutral at the right, suggesting that neutral good was better than either lawful or chaotic good, and neutral evil was worse than lawful or chaotic evil.There's also what the Evil Handbook (an AEG book) says about neutral evil being the worst evil because you can't really predict their activities very much, but they're less powerful in general because they don't generally work together, whereas chaotic evil creatures like to have others around to bully each other and lawful evil individuals like to organize themselves.As for law or chaos being tools to change moral alignment, I could easily see someone being tricked into thinking that what was best for the majority was to control them, leading them to some lawful evil actions, or that those who try to control them are villains, possibly leading to some chaotic evil behaviour.</blockquote>