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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 8046145" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Here's how 3e defined it:Chaotic Neutral, "Free Spirit"    A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn’t strive to protect others’ freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it.    Chaotic neutral is the best <a href="https://www.d20srd.org/srd/description.htm#alignment" target="_blank">alignment</a> you can be because it represents true freedom from both society’s restrictions and a do-gooder’s zeal.Plus:    Chaotic characters follow their consciences, resent being told what to do, favor new ideas over tradition, and do what they promise if they feel like it.    "Chaos" implies freedom, adaptability, and flexibility. On the downside, chaos can include recklessness, resentment toward legitimate authority, arbitrary actions, and irresponsibility. Those who promote chaotic behavior say that only unfettered personal freedom allows people to express themselves fully and lets society benefit from the potential that its individuals have within them.     People who are neutral with respect to good and evil have compunctions against killing the innocent but lack the commitment to make sacrifices to protect or help others. Neutral people are committed to others by personal relationships. And 5e:Chaotic neutral (CN) creatures follow their whims, holding their personal freedom above all else. Many barbarians and rogues, and some bards, are chaotic neutral. For some reason lots of people (even more recent players!) are stuck on versions of alignment that haven't been in a current edition for almost 20 years. I recommend everyone read the <a href="https://www.d20srd.org/srd/description.htm#alignment" target="_blank">3e Alignment</a> description, and as a DM consider having your players refer to either it, or the brief 5e descriptions (or both).I actually had a player ask if they could play a CN character back in 2014 in LMoP, and I asked them what they meant by it. They showed me a web comic of an unabashedly murderous CE character, I told them no, explained (or sent them links) better explanations like the one above, and we ended up with two actually CN characters in the game that didn't cause any problems.Even if you are playing 1e-2e you should use the later alignment descriptions, because the ones in the AD&D PHBs are non-sensical and the NPCs don't actually follow them (most published "True Neutral" or NPCs in the AD&D years were 3e "Neutral", not philosophical balance champions). I'm sure someone can think of a reason why the older absurd alignment definitions might have some merit in some campaigns that aren't intended to be farces, but I can't think of one myself.</blockquote>

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