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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1766151" data-attributes="member: 18549">It's not that chaotic characters aren't likely to have an ideology or set of principles.  It's that they're more likely to act out of line with those principles when it becomes inconvenient to do so, given their overall goals (i.e. good or evil).  Whatever works, works.I think you're equivocating here between "lawful" as opposed to "chaotic" and "lawful" as pertaining to matters of public law.  When Bob the despot sets up his stone block in the public square with a set of laws, all of which are unfair, and all of which are punishable by death, but Bob is the fair-and-square hereditary ruler of the place (son of a really great despot that everyone loved), Bob's laws are The Law.  But that probably won't stop the place getting a bad reputation among good people, both lawful and chaotic.  Lawful Good people aren't going to say, "well, Bob's in charge, so what can we do?"  Rather, they're likely to have a code of conduct or chivalry that compels them to act against Bob, despite his position as legitimate authority.  Lawful Good can oppose Lawful Evil, even if that would require breaking the law, so long as the law is unjust, even if it's legitimate.</blockquote>