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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8829307" data-attributes="member: 58197">I find that Law/Chaos is more fraught than Good/Evil. But that's the point of shifting to an &quot;alignment = allegiance&quot; model instead of &quot;alignment = behavior.&quot; All you have to do is ask: Which side of the cosmic conflict between Law and Chaos has Batman cast his allegiance with?Presuming that &quot;criminals and supervillains&quot; are the DCU equivalent of cosmic Chaos, and &quot;police and the Justice League&quot; are Law, then Batman has certainly picked the latter. And that's all you need to know. He's Lawful. His behavior is irrelevant.Now, anyone who makes the effort of picking a faction has a reason for doing so. Maybe you approve of that faction's goals, or you feel comfortable working within it, or all your friends are there... whatever. Furthermore, people tend to adapt themselves to the groups in which they live and work. Therefore, most people in the Law faction will exhibit &quot;law-like&quot; traits. But you'll also get the occasional &quot;chaos-like&quot; oddball who had some strange reason to hook up with Law. And likewise, Chaos will have a handful of &quot;law-like&quot; people who chose Chaos. I regard this as a feature rather than a bug--it adds a new dimension to the system and opens up cool RP options.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8829307, member: 58197"] I find that Law/Chaos is [I]more[/I] fraught than Good/Evil. But that's the point of shifting to an "alignment = allegiance" model instead of "alignment = behavior." All you have to do is ask: Which side of the cosmic conflict between Law and Chaos has Batman cast his allegiance with? Presuming that "criminals and supervillains" are the DCU equivalent of cosmic Chaos, and "police and the Justice League" are Law, then Batman has certainly picked the latter. And that's all you need to know. He's Lawful. His behavior is irrelevant. Now, anyone who makes the effort of picking a faction has a reason for doing so. Maybe you approve of that faction's goals, or you feel comfortable working within it, or all your friends are there... whatever. Furthermore, people tend to adapt themselves to the groups in which they live and work. Therefore, [I]most[/I] people in the Law faction will exhibit "law-like" traits. But you'll also get the occasional "chaos-like" oddball who had some strange reason to hook up with Law. And likewise, Chaos will have a handful of "law-like" people who chose Chaos. I regard this as a feature rather than a bug--it adds a new dimension to the system and opens up cool RP options. [/QUOTE]

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