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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1201080" data-attributes="member: 11581">My iconic LN characters happen to be Inspector Javier from Les Miserables and Judge Dredd. For these guys, law and order is everything. Good and evil are entirely irrelevant to them, only the letter of the law matters.A character that merely has a self-imposed code of honor he always adheres to isn't necessarily lawful: In order for it to be considered lawful, the code that a character adheres to should be external to the character: He follows it because it's the code of his order, a tradition, etc. The fact that the character may have a very rigid pattern of behavior which isn't part of any tradition is simply a collateral side effect from the way he thinks about rules: The lawful character is fixated on rules for things, so if there isn't a general, externally imposed rule for it, he's likely to impose one on himself if he feels the need for it: However, this is more collateral damage, than actual lawfulness: A character who simply has a bunch of personal rules is just obsessive-compulsive, not lawful neutral.</blockquote>