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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lewpuls" data-source="post: 7815534" data-attributes="member: 30518">Despite the fatuous "get off my lawn" comment and the equally-useless "how does this get used on this site" waste of time (typically meaning "I disagree vehemently", oh well), this has been a really interesting set of comments. It would be a good place to start for anyone wanted to write a treatise on how to role-play alignment.But I care about alignment only from a design perspective, the constraints it imposes (or does not) on player behavior in a game. I wasn't trying to justify CN by describing a kind of CN behavior that works. I was describing common play.  If that's a bias or extremely one-sided, so be it.I started playing the game when there was only Law and Chaos, which were roughly equivalent to good and evil (from Michael Moorcock mostly). I always wondered how a chaotic person (necessarily untrustworthy and inconsistent) could be Good.   Some have turned Chaotic into "anti-authority," but that's not what the word means.(Definition, Chaotic:"in a state of complete confusion and disorder."": marked by chaos (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chaos" target="_blank">Definition of CHAOS</a>) or being in a state of chaos : completely confused or disordered"."Something chaotic is really out of control or disorganized.")Oh, the original title for this was "Thugs", but I was required to change that (I chose Hoodlums), and the editor changed the title to what has been used.I briefly wondered it there was some connection between alignment and playing style. Planners would be Lawful, Improvisors Chaotic, and the in-between adapters Neutral. I don't know. I'd say those unwilling to take time to plan are more likely to be chaotic. See"A Different Look at Player Styles: Planners and Improvisers"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?4269-A-Different-Look-at-Player-Styles-Planners-and-Improvisers#.WWEbeYgrKUk[/URL]</blockquote>

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