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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2052790" data-attributes="member: 12706">That just doesn't work, though - you could cause a person to lock-up by that standard. You have to have a hierarchy for law conflict resolution. I happen to prefer to start with this one:"This above all else: To Thine Own Self Be True."The thing is to recognise that ultimately, all of ANY person's behavior, whether you want to think of them as generally Lawful or generally Chaotic or what-have-you, comes from internal motivation first. The reason a Paladin would obey the tenets of his deity is ultimately that he feels a desire to. In a Lawful person, the pattern of these wants may form a sometimes self-conflicting hierchy, i.e. I don't desire to do this, but I swore an oath to do that, and my desire to fulfill that oath is more important to me than my desire to not do this. But still, it boils down to what that person values - not any sort of difference in the actual hardware, so to speak, of Lawful vs Chaotic beings. (Well, except possibly in the case of being made specifically to serve an alignment, like Demons or Celestials - but your run-of-the-mill PC is a free-willed, full run of behavior, type person.)</blockquote>