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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1114552" data-attributes="member: 5171">I think that all of the suggestions here make sense for use in different campaigns.  If you wanted to get rid of alignment altogether, that would be within your rights.  If you wanted to keep alignment and just have political covers over it, that's also fine.One thing I would say, though, is that fewer people are evil or good than we'd think.  Most guards are neutral.  Most henchmen, even, are neutral.  They're being paid, they do what they gotta do.  Most of the time, doing what they gotta do involves killing people who are armed and coming at 'em.  That's just self-preservation.The BBEG probably has used Detect Evil a few times on his own to figure out which guards to pick for the Nasty Tasks.  It's one thing to tell a guy to guard this chamber with his life and kill anyone who tries to get in.  It's another to tell a guy to go kill some puppies and use their remains to club some orphans to death.Most politicians in this country you're describing might be self-serving and conniving, but they wouldn't go out of their way to harm an innocent, would they?  That probably makes them neutral.  They're in no danger of becoming paladins any time soon, but they don't derive pleasure from any of the unsavory things that they have to do to survive in this city.  Heck, many of them hate the way the city works, but if they didn't fight to stay in control, somebody even worse would take over.  At least this way, the populace is protected by someone who wants to minimize the damage to innocents...It might not be true, but it's how a Lawful Neutral guy could convince himself to get out of bed every morning.</blockquote>

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