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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1767114" data-attributes="member: 4910">To the people that are talking about a chaotic person not being able to have a personal code of behavior:  yes, a chaotic person is perfectly able to have a code, just the same as anyone else is.Get this - the primary difference?  A chaotic person is far more likely to be flexible in how they live with that code depending on the situation that arises.  Say their code includes "No killing non-combatants (children, the elderly, etc)".  Now say there's a situation where the point is pressed: if the badguy gets away with the destined child, the kid will become the host for the Unstopable Avatar of Destruction and end all existance.  You have this one chance stop them before they get away and you know there's no way you can kill the badguy in the time given because he's just too strong.  A lawful person would be more likely to stick to his code and look for some way to stop them from getting away without hurting the child.A chaotic person would be more likely to be willing to be flexible in this one instance, say they're sorry, and then kill the kid.  This doesn't mean they're all of a sudden going to abandon their code and go out kicking orphans.  It just means that they saw this situation as important enough to let their code slide this one time.Edit/Additional:  It's important to note though, that neither example is an unbreakable dictate of what the character MUST do, because of their alignment.  The lawful person could be willing to make the exception, the chaotic person could stick to their guns - their alignment is just a reflection of their general trends, and a single act does not an alignment make.  What an individual character would do given the circumstances is all based on the character as an individual, not just what's written down in their alignment line on the character sheet.</blockquote>

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