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Message: <blockquote data-quote="noretoc" data-source="post: 144831" data-attributes="member: 1276">Well, I'll put my 15 cents in.  First, I am a DM, and in my party, I have several evil characters and good ones.  I have a greedy ranger who thinks he is neutral, but turned evil, when he sold some innocent souls to a demon.  I have a neutral drow, who is bloodthirsty, and I have  NE assassin who is the king of evil.  On the other side I have a NG cleric, who is trying to save the others by showing them the light.  A lawful good fighter, who is his protector, and a neutral good bard, who love watching the stuff happen.  There is also a true neutral wizard who plays both sides perfectly (sometimes he gets mad when the assasin kills the innocent, sometimes he gets pissed when the cleric gives the party's money to the aforementioned innocent's orphaned son.     I spoke with them recently.  The assassin told me "I know one day I am gonna push too far and the other are going to kill me, but it is still fu".  The same night, the player of the priest told me "Brother Tobin (his priest char) fully expects to die in his sleep one night"I love it.  It never gets to the point of disrupting the game.  (thought one night, it got close to someone giving up his character.  Not in a bad way at all.  If the other didn't talk him out of it, he would have retired that one, and gotten a new one.  He still loved the gamed and what happened and would have enjoyed the new crit, but the other PC talked him into staying (with a promise by the assassin to be more careful who he killed).   Now, my take on alignment, is not a guideline on how to play, but a moral standing.  Being neutral evil doesn’t mean that that the character has to disregard everyone.  It only means that he doesn’t see anything wrong with that.  On the other hand, a neutral good character does not have to do good things all the time.  However, when he sees a tied up virgin for sacrifice, he knows it would be the right think to do to free her.  Alignment shows what you feel is right.  This is also why society has nothing to do with alignment. Evil, lawful, etc is absolute.  If you grew up with slavery, and thought it was fine, and everyone else though it was fine, it only shows that you have an evil outlook.  So did all the people around you.  The first time someone explained it to you in a different light, maybe you would see it different, and gain a good or neutral outlook, but if you thought it was ok, no matter what you grew up with, or the society.  You would be evil.  This is how I feel alignment works</blockquote>

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