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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet" data-source="post: 7472329" data-attributes="member: 6689161">Exactly spot on.  Here is an example of "I'm going to do ___ because I'm ___":What do  you do as the typical neutral character?  Some people might play it as maintaining a balance but the average farmer has no idea what balance this refers to.  Also within a true N alignment a person might do something noble for the homeland or actually something cowardly to save themselves.  It just does not make sense to say if "alignment" then this particular behavior.  Consider Lawful Good.  Do all LG characters fight evil with great conviction?  Are they necessarily brave or generous?  They may well tend to do the right thing more often than say a true neutral, but it does not mean they always do so nor do they always act in a selfless fashion.Alignment speaks to overall tendencies and probabilities but there is and should be incredible diversity within each of the 9 alignments.  If we look at it through this lens, my question would be about particular behaviors.  The LE character that murders when it makes sense to them or within their code could bring about the death of the whole party just as easily as a CN character could.  The question is less CN for me and more about the level of stupidity or conflict the character fosters.  Are there any conflict averse CN mages with the sage background who do not like restriction but usually stay in their lane?  I think it is possible and the character would be little trouble in most parties.  We had a pal that always played CN characters.  He played CN as "conflict needed" and was periodically attacked by other party members.  He also generated fun at times and at other times acted in ways that no authority structure would tolerate which sort of ruined any sense of realism.  Popping off to a noble in his own manor or keep should get you hung or worse if they are in authority but often a DM will handwave the game can continue.So my long-winded conclusion is the alignment matters much less that the behavioral tendencies within the alignment.  Two LE characters might not play the same way...</blockquote>

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