POLL - What is the general alignment of elves?

[Thanee]

They are chaotic good unless you are an goblin, orc, kobold, drow, human, etc. If you fall into one of those categories then the elves generally kill you, your wife and children (wouldn't want the orcs to reproduce would we)

*LOL*

But considering, that all goblins, orcs, kobolds, drow, etc. are evil, that's a good thing, right?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Buttercup]

With their long lives, I'm not sure how elves could care too much for the short lived races--the way we don't care so much about fruit flies. Nature, now, they could let themselves care about, since it is around for the long haul. So I voted neutral.

But then, I hate elves.

 

[The Serge]

Most of the Elves I've seen in print came across as decidely Lawful Neutral. This is especially the case in the Dragonlance novels. Sure, they lived in trees, and sure, they were pretty and all, but they were essentially Vulcans...

 

[Mousebrain]

Chaotic Good

 

[candidus_cogitens]

I'd like to stick up for the idea that chaotic can mean anti-social. I agree, at least in part. Actually, asocial might be more appropriate. To be chaotic means to have a somewhat lower value placed upon the coherence of the group and its social structure. You could call that asocial, as long as you distinguish it from "unsociable" (which has nothing to do with alignment) and "anti-social" in the more precise sense of one who has a violent disposition towards society (which is clearly more of an evil trait than a chaotic one).

 

[Tsyr]

For the purposes of this poll, consider the term ELVES to mean a conglomeration of all the elves (except the drow) from the campaign settings of:

AL-QADIM
Birthright
Dark Sun
Dragonlance
Forgotten Realms
Greyhawk
Lanhkmar (if applicable)
Mystara
Oriental Adventures
Planescape
Ravenloft
Red Steel
Spelljammer

Ok, right there we have a problem.

In Dragonlance, you have a race of basicly chaotic-neutral or true neutral elves (Wild elves), a race of basicly lawful good elves (Qualenesti?), and a race of basicly lawful neutral elves (Silvanesti? Something like that). Then there are the two breeds of sea elf, but I'm not familiar enough with them to judge...

In Dark Sun, you have Athasian Elves, which are a completely different breed... Chaotic Neutral I would think, and possibly with evil tendancies.

Ravenloft has whatever gets sucked there from everywhere else.

Same more or less with Spelljammer; though I think the Elven navy would probably be something like LN...

 

[WizarDru]

The next poll I do, on dwarves, I will leave out alignment and use general bent instead.

Because everyone has a different idea of what alignment is, there is no point in using alignment in a poll.

Unless, of course, you use the standard definitions that D&D provides both in the PHB and Hero Builder book, in which case the argument should be about whether an action is reflective of an alignment, not the other way around.

Tsyr is right, though: you've included so many settings with so many different kinds of elves, that there is no way to correctly answer.

 

[Undead Pete]

I hate elves

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

bump

 

[The Forsaken One]

Hey Edena u doin ok ?