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<blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1237969" data-attributes="member: 14316"><p>Hmm. </p><p></p><p>Experiences can have an effect on your characters. Watching a creature you were just having a friendly conversation with get killed right in front of your eyes might give your characters an appreciation of being good. Watching Darien and his men in action might give your characters an appreciation of being lawful. As long as the character expresses his actions in a meaningful way, I have no problems with adjusting alignments.</p><p></p><p>To me, neutral alignments (especial true neutral) are harder to play interestingly. IRL I bore quickly of people who spend all day thinking and talking about themselves <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Even the ‘philosophical’ neutrals can be tiresome. Personalities are tougher to develop too, as there’s no striving to be good, and no evil cackling either! All around, pretty boring. Not that you can’t develop an interesting neutral character, it’s just harder IMO. Maybe because most people IRL are neutral. </p><p></p><p>Sample boring neutral dialogue: If I was playing Filbert, after the battle is over “Too bad, I was just about to debate the finer points of theology with that centaur. Oh well. What’s for dinner?”</p><p></p><p>It says somewhere that neutral characters prefer good over evil (for their own selfish reasons). As far as I’m concerned, if they come up with a convincing reason, everyone can act ‘out of character’ in a different alignment occasionally. Manzanita being a student of the law, for example, might encourage her to help the centaurs. Shillen is a lawful good kingdom, after all.</p><p></p><p>I’m not encouraging anyone to be good or evil or whatever. I’m just having fun watching <insert evil laugh here></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="silentspace, post: 1237969, member: 14316"] Hmm. Experiences can have an effect on your characters. Watching a creature you were just having a friendly conversation with get killed right in front of your eyes might give your characters an appreciation of being good. Watching Darien and his men in action might give your characters an appreciation of being lawful. As long as the character expresses his actions in a meaningful way, I have no problems with adjusting alignments. To me, neutral alignments (especial true neutral) are harder to play interestingly. IRL I bore quickly of people who spend all day thinking and talking about themselves :) Even the ‘philosophical’ neutrals can be tiresome. Personalities are tougher to develop too, as there’s no striving to be good, and no evil cackling either! All around, pretty boring. Not that you can’t develop an interesting neutral character, it’s just harder IMO. Maybe because most people IRL are neutral. Sample boring neutral dialogue: If I was playing Filbert, after the battle is over “Too bad, I was just about to debate the finer points of theology with that centaur. Oh well. What’s for dinner?” It says somewhere that neutral characters prefer good over evil (for their own selfish reasons). As far as I’m concerned, if they come up with a convincing reason, everyone can act ‘out of character’ in a different alignment occasionally. Manzanita being a student of the law, for example, might encourage her to help the centaurs. Shillen is a lawful good kingdom, after all. I’m not encouraging anyone to be good or evil or whatever. I’m just having fun watching <insert evil laugh here> [/QUOTE]
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