The Book of Ultimate Neutrality

I'd like to see all three: Neutrality, Chaos, and Law. Preferably in that order.

I like the apathy/balance suggestion, but I think they could both be handled in the same book. A book devoted to all aspects of neutrality.
 

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I'd like to see this book (or books), not so much for the nutrality one, but for the law and chaos aspects.

It would need to cover ideas like running a law/chaos centred game, and have lots of outsider info. And inevitables.
 

If not Neutrality, then Law and Chaos definitely.

I played a LN Cleric of St Cuth for well over a year, and saw both the BoVD and BoED go by and could use nothing in them. Defenders of the faith had all of 2 cleric-centered prcs that I could qualify for.

The cardinal alignments (Neutral Somethings and Somethings Neutrals) simply get the shaft in comparison to the diagonal alignments (CE, CG, LE, LG) when it comes to the materials designed specifically for them. Forget about True Neutrals. The large majority of what's out there is written for the most obvious crusaderish/tyrantish, liberator/psychopath character types. I readily admit to using broad-strokes to define what's out there, but I do so because it seems like every stroke the designers have made for the book tend to miss the Neutrals.

The whole "blar- neutrals don't have the roleplay requirements or dangers" statement is folly, in that roleplay should never balance mechanics... and also in that currently it seems like WotC products either push people towards Racial stuff, Good stuff, or Evil stuff. If you aren't a dwarf, elf, part of a clearly established Faerunian faction, or cleric of a small set of greyhawk gods, there's a saddeningly disproportionate amount of material and options set forth for you.
 
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I'm pretty sure it would be called the "Book of Perfect Balance", as detailed in Arms & Equip guide and FR "Underdark" supplement. The text says the book is "sacred to devine spellcasters of neutral alignments (NG,LN,N,CN,NE)" so that pretty much covers the law/chaos spectrum of neutrality. I would expect coverage on Archangels, Modrons + Primus, Yugoloth lords, Slaad lords and Rilmani lords. At least if they follow the format as practiced up to now for these books.
 

I think that it could be very interesting if they did it right. Law and Chaos would get hit with the most details as far as their neutral feelings go as evil and good have already been hit for NG/NE.
 




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