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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9310012" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p><em>"What makes a man turn neutral?" -Zapp Brannigan</em></p><p></p><p>Having played D&D for several decades now, I've run across this idea that certain actions <em>necessarily </em>indicate that the person doing them is good/lawful/evil/chaotic. That always surprised me, because one of the definitions of True Neutral that I recall reading was that it was a mixture of the other four. So a TN character could do something evil, for instance, and it wouldn't be in conflict with their alignment in-and-of itself, since at some point we'd see the "good aspect" of their neutrality, showcasing that they were still in balance (as it were) on the alignment scale. Caricatures of keeping tally sheets for their actions aside, this struck me as a sensible aspect to what it meant to be True Neutral.</p><p></p><p>However, I've also come across a different interpretation of True Neutral over the years, where it's one that essentially <em>refrains</em> from the other alignments. That essentially, you won't ever see someone who's Neutral doing anything (particularly/significantly/notably) good or evil or lawful or chaotic, avoiding such actions if they can and moderating or ameliorating them if they can't. So in other words, if a True Neutral character <em>does</em> do something that could be characterized as good, evil, etc. it means that they're not actually TN at all, or have just undergone an alignment change.</p><p></p><p>What do you think? Does being neutral mean partaking of either extreme in relatively equal measures, or does it mean avoiding them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9310012, member: 8461"] [I]"What makes a man turn neutral?" -Zapp Brannigan[/I] Having played D&D for several decades now, I've run across this idea that certain actions [I]necessarily [/I]indicate that the person doing them is good/lawful/evil/chaotic. That always surprised me, because one of the definitions of True Neutral that I recall reading was that it was a mixture of the other four. So a TN character could do something evil, for instance, and it wouldn't be in conflict with their alignment in-and-of itself, since at some point we'd see the "good aspect" of their neutrality, showcasing that they were still in balance (as it were) on the alignment scale. Caricatures of keeping tally sheets for their actions aside, this struck me as a sensible aspect to what it meant to be True Neutral. However, I've also come across a different interpretation of True Neutral over the years, where it's one that essentially [I]refrains[/I] from the other alignments. That essentially, you won't ever see someone who's Neutral doing anything (particularly/significantly/notably) good or evil or lawful or chaotic, avoiding such actions if they can and moderating or ameliorating them if they can't. So in other words, if a True Neutral character [I]does[/I] do something that could be characterized as good, evil, etc. it means that they're not actually TN at all, or have just undergone an alignment change. What do you think? Does being neutral mean partaking of either extreme in relatively equal measures, or does it mean avoiding them? [/QUOTE]
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