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<blockquote data-quote="LuYangShih" data-source="post: 816468" data-attributes="member: 10414">Playing a Chaotic Neutral character can be difficult.&nbsp; You need to make sure you do not fall into the trap of doing whatever you want, since you lack both a moral code and do truly respond to the forces of order. The best way to play any character is to assign your alignment later, after you've developed the characters personality and history.You may decide, while doing this, that Chaotic Neutral is not the best alignment, and if so, just go with it.&nbsp; You'll probably end up with a better character regardless of what your alignment ends up being by developing your characters motivations, desires and plans.&nbsp; Perhaps your character was not always the person they are today, and they had a life changing experience sometime in the course of their adventures.&nbsp; Perhaps not.&nbsp; It's up to you to decide.&nbsp; The key is to decide how you want your character to act, react, and relate to the world in general. Once you do that, assigning an alignment will be easy, and it will be much easier to play the character with consistency and enjoyment.&nbsp; Just ask yourself what your character is, what your characters goals are, and so on, and begin developing a cohesive personality.&nbsp; Ask yourself simple questions, like, does my character have a temper?&nbsp; Does my character have any weaknesses that they need to deal with?&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; Basically, you need to develop a personality before assigning an alignment, not the other way around.As for classes, I suggest that, if you are planning to make a spellcaster, you focus purely on one class.&nbsp; Spellcasters suffer much more from multiclassing than any other class, and you will be much better off if you stay purely focused on one of the spellcasting paths.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I have not been able to purchase Races Of Faerun yet, so I can't offer you much advice on the House Of Dlagereth.&nbsp; PSI see no more of a problem with people emulating Drizzt than I see with people emulating Legolas and Gimli.&nbsp; People have a desire to be unique, so they like playing characters similar to Drizzt.&nbsp; Just because Salvatore wrote books about such a character doesn't mean playing such a character is &quot;cheesy&quot;, even when you are directly drawing from his writings, in my opinion.&nbsp; Everyone draws inspiration from somewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LuYangShih, post: 816468, member: 10414"] Playing a Chaotic Neutral character can be difficult. You need to make sure you do not fall into the trap of doing whatever you want, since you lack both a moral code and do truly respond to the forces of order. The best way to play any character is to assign your alignment later, after you've developed the characters personality and history. You may decide, while doing this, that Chaotic Neutral is not the best alignment, and if so, just go with it. You'll probably end up with a better character regardless of what your alignment ends up being by developing your characters motivations, desires and plans. Perhaps your character was not always the person they are today, and they had a life changing experience sometime in the course of their adventures. Perhaps not. It's up to you to decide. The key is to decide how you want your character to act, react, and relate to the world in general. Once you do that, assigning an alignment will be easy, and it will be much easier to play the character with consistency and enjoyment. Just ask yourself what your character is, what your characters goals are, and so on, and begin developing a cohesive personality. Ask yourself simple questions, like, does my character have a temper? Does my character have any weaknesses that they need to deal with? And so on. Basically, you need to develop a personality [i]before[/i] assigning an alignment, not the other way around. As for classes, I suggest that, if you are planning to make a spellcaster, you focus purely on one class. Spellcasters suffer much more from multiclassing than any other class, and you will be much better off if you stay purely focused on one of the spellcasting paths. Unfortunately, I have not been able to purchase Races Of Faerun yet, so I can't offer you much advice on the House Of Dlagereth. PS I see no more of a problem with people emulating Drizzt than I see with people emulating Legolas and Gimli. People have a desire to be unique, so they like playing characters similar to Drizzt. Just because Salvatore wrote books about such a character doesn't mean playing such a character is "cheesy", even when you are directly drawing from his writings, in my opinion. Everyone draws inspiration from somewhere. [/QUOTE]

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