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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6734800" data-attributes="member: 4937">I want to caution against thinking about any alignment in these terms because it trivializes alignment and tends to create overly simple stereotypes. While it might be true (maybe) that LN is most attractive as a philosophy to punctual, neat, orderly, conservative people who dislike change, it certainly won't be true that all LN's have those attributes.  It equally might be said that the philosophy is attractive to people who lack all of those traits, precisely because it offers a solution to the daily chaos of their lives.  Likewise, the person might not prefer every day to be much like the day before, not because of their personality, but because they've lived long enough to remember what "interesting times" are like and intellectually and are convinced intellectually and by personal experience that another day like the day before is preferable to the alternatives.  And of course, it's possible to be a radical LN zealot, precisely because you don't believe that the current society is living up the ideal set by some higher law that the society either needs to commit to, or has fallen away from.  Such people are likely to exhibit fiery, dynamic, passionate traits that contrast to our normal perception of quite orderliness.  Quiet orderliness may be the desired goal, but even law may suggest now is not the time or the season for quiet acceptance of the current arrangements.  LN societies can move from peaceful tranquility to a roused state of aggression with startling swiftness and efficiency.It's very important as a DM to be able to play people of different alignments against their stereotype.  And in particular, it's important if you want a world that resembles the real one in some regards to remember that alignment isn't always set by role.  You should have chaotic bureaucrats.  You should have lawful thieves.  You can and perhaps should have highly organized, punctual neat freaks that are chaotic.  In short, alignment isn't personality.  Alignment is deeply held beliefs that determine how we behave - or how we think we ought to behave - in a crisis.   Alignment might change how we express our personality, but personality doesn't determine alignment.</blockquote>

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