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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1271235" data-attributes="member: 3146">Sure it does. And it does so explicitly in the case of every creature other than humans.From the 3e MM p. 12. &quot;Alignment, this entry giest hte alignment that the creature is most likely to have.... Usually: The majority (more than 50%) of these creatures have the given alignment. This may be due to strong cultural influences, or it may be a legacy of the creatures' origin... Often: This creature tends toward the listed alignment, either by nature or nurture, but not strongly. A plurality (40-50%) of individuals have the given alignment but exceptions are common.&quot;Now, I suppose I'm carrying my analysis of human society over from the days of 2e when humans actually had a listed alignment but in most societies it would be &quot;Often neutral.&quot; In that case, it's reasonable to assume that the remaining 60% is reasonably evenly distributed among the remaining alignements.&nbsp; If 40% is neutral, that's 60% to divide between the remaining 8 alignments. That's 22.5% of the population that's evil.In no case, is human society likely to be more strongly alignend than &quot;Usually X&quot;. Even in that case, somewhere from 10-49% of the population isn't alignment X and it is probably reasonable to assume that a good portion of the not usually X is evil. If even one in five non X (where X is some kind of good) person were evil, that would represent about a 10% evil population in one of the most strongly good human societies plausible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 1271235, member: 3146"] Sure it does. And it does so explicitly in the case of every creature other than humans. From the 3e MM p. 12. "Alignment, this entry giest hte alignment that the creature is most likely to have.... Usually: The majority (more than 50%) of these creatures have the given alignment. This may be due to strong cultural influences, or it may be a legacy of the creatures' origin... Often: This creature tends toward the listed alignment, either by nature or nurture, but not strongly. A plurality (40-50%) of individuals have the given alignment but exceptions are common." Now, I suppose I'm carrying my analysis of human society over from the days of 2e when humans actually had a listed alignment but in most societies it would be "Often neutral." In that case, it's reasonable to assume that the remaining 60% is reasonably evenly distributed among the remaining alignements. If 40% is neutral, that's 60% to divide between the remaining 8 alignments. That's 22.5% of the population that's evil. In no case, is human society likely to be more strongly alignend than "Usually X". Even in that case, somewhere from 10-49% of the population isn't alignment X and it is probably reasonable to assume that a good portion of the not usually X is evil. If even one in five non X (where X is some kind of good) person were evil, that would represent about a 10% evil population in one of the most strongly good human societies plausible. [/QUOTE]

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