POLL - What is the general alignment of elves?

[Edena_of_Neith]

This is my final bump of this poll.
After it reaches page 3 again, I will copy the results, then post the poll on dwarves, using the same parameters.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Bah.

I fully agree with some others who have said that elves are some of the most cliche things around, used as a sort of be-all-and-end-all characters.

They're FREEDOM! They're LOVE! They're NATURE! They're PRETTY!

I have made sure, IMC, that those who play elves know darn well that they're considered frail, elitist, and most definately sexually curious.

They're all about individuality and freedom...that's not nessecarily mutually exclusive from running empires and such. It just means that the empires adn the like are bastions of freedom, where each individual is more important to them than the whole. Because they are very similar, because they likely lean in the same direction, it's not too hard to reach a concensus with elves. They all think quite similarly, as anything that thinks different is obviously Not Them, and therefore, Lesser.

They're all about being superior. They find themselves stunningly beautiful, and put stock in grace and prettiness. That's the origins of their sexual exploits, as well...regardless of gender, regardless of species, they find beauty and they crave it, cherish it, and give themselves to it fully, reveling in it.

They're all about helping those "less fortunate" (e.g.: all those not elves). Sometimes their help is unappreciated, and sometimes the only way they can see to help someone is to kill them off (not usually, though).

They're D&D elves...not entirely similar to any of their sources as much as they are an amalgam of them all. They ain't, IMHO, any kewler than a dwarven axewielder, though the elves get all the glory (damn Charisma penalty! )

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

A question of alignment demographics for elves - a mathematical question

Demographers say that, if the United States was a giant plate balanced on a pin, and pin was sticking up against the point just below a certain place in eastern Kansas, the giant United States-shaped plate would be perfectly balanced.
In other words, the center of population is a point in eastern Kansas, for the United States.

Well, what if Alignment was a giant, perfectly square-shaped shape, with 3 lines up/down and 3 lines right/left creating nine blocks labelled LG, NG, CG, LN, N, CN, LE, E, and NE?
And what if, in each of these nine little square blocks within the large square block, there were the numbers 1, 1; 1, 2; 1, 3; 2, 1; 2, 2; 2, 3; 3, 1; 3, 2; 3, 3?
And what if 1, 1 meant Lawful Good, and 1, 2 Neutral Good, 1, 3 Chaotic Good, 2, 1 Lawful Neutral, 2, 2 Neutral, 2, 3 Chaotic Neutral, 3, 1 Lawful Evil, 3, 2 Neutral Evil, and 3, 3 Chaotic Evil?
And finally, what if you took each of the votes above in the Poll, and put them in the exact middle of each respective square (that is, a Chaotic Good vote would go in the EXACT MIDDLE of the upper right block labelled CG and 1, 3) ?

In the above case, what number would you arrive at to find the exact center of alignment, as voted on by those polled?
What 2 numbers (including out to 3 decimels) would you have to place the pin under, in order for the Alignment Plate to sit perfectly balanced on top of it?

The votes were:

4 votes LG (1, 1)
21 votes NG (1, 2)
64 votes CG (1, 3)
8 votes LN (2, 1)
2 votes N (2, 2)
14 votes CN (2, 3)
2 votes LE (3, 1)
2 votes NE (3, 2)
3 votes CE (3, 3)
2 votes Enigmatic - good, evil tend. (1.5, 2)
1 vote Enigmatic - evil, good tend. (2.5, 2)
2 votes Enigmatic - lawful, chaotic tend. (2, 1.5)
4 votes Enigmatic - chaotic, lawful tend. (2, 2.5)
7 votes None of the Above (do not count in calculation)
2 votes Alignment not applicable to elves (do not count in calculation)

 

[WizarDru]

Re: A question of alignment demographics for elves - a mathematical question

In the above case, what number would you arrive at to find the exact center of alignment, as voted on by those polled?
What 2 numbers (including out to 3 decimels) would you have to place the pin under, in order for the Alignment Plate to sit perfectly balanced on top of it?

I really have no idea what you just asked.