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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 5856848" data-attributes="member: 53980">No, Chaotic Neutral is someone who follows a philosophy that upholds chaos (whether consciously or not). They don't respect authority figures, for one.An unaligned character, on the other hand, doesn't care about chaos. They're perfectly willing to offer authority figures respect, under reasonable circumstances.I see Lawfulness as being dedicated to the cause of Order. As such, I don't think a Lawful character would seek to balance order and chaos, but rather stamp out chaos. He might be a realist, and understand that that's impossible, but that wouldn't stop him from trying any more than a good character would stop running into a burning orphanage simply because he realizes he can't save all of the children inside.Admittedly, running a TN PC would be very difficult. It's more an NPC alignment. But there are NPCs suited to that alignment. I can't think of an example at the moment, but literature is rife with figures who only act to maintain balance between factions (usually good and evil). As for bears being TN in past editions, that has no bearing (pun intended) on DDN. Unaligned didn't exist at that time, so the concept of TN was bodged into the TN definition. People who maintain the balance, and people who just don't care. That doesn't mean that we can't introduce distinction, by making TN keepers of the balance, and unaligned those who don't care.</blockquote>