Alignments A Closer Look

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Alignments a Closer Look

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A Lawful Alignment

A Neutral Alignment

A Chaotic Alignment

The Alignments an Overview Look

Lawful

• Lawful Good: Respects law and order and is willing to suffer limitations on individual freedom for the benefit of the group. Puts moral principles before material considerations. The lawful good character will be a very faithful member of the group, but if the laws of the group clash with the ethics dictated by his or her moral alignment, the character will probably leave that group and look for a group more closely aligned with his or her ethics. The lawful good character is an active advocate of his or her beliefs.
  
  
• Lawful Neutral: Respects the laws and customs of the group, but does not necessarily consider creature rights to be the highest good. Because the lawful neutral character is not too concerned with questions of morality, he or she will be a more faithful group member and a more loyal follower of his or her alignment than any differently aligned character. The lawful neutral character is an advocate of law and order.
  
  
• Lawful Evil: Respects the laws of the group, as long as those laws do not clash with his or her evil moral alignment. This is not quite as much of a problem as it is for the lawful good character, since “evil” is not as well defined as “good.” The lawful evil character is an active “advocate” of evil, although not in quite the same sense that a lawful good character is an advocate of good. In most Roleplaying Structures, “evil” is most easily defined as “anti-good,” so a lawful evil character’s advocacy of evil takes the form of opposing good at every opportunity.

Neutral

• Neutral (Independent) Good: Often goes along with the laws and desires of the group as being the easiest course of action, but ethical considerations clearly have top priority. May pursue quite abstract goals. Often aloof and difficult to understand.
  
  
• Neutral (Independent) Neutral (True Neutral ): Not actively for or against anything. Uses whatever means are necessary to maintain a situation to his or her benefit. Has his or her own reasons for doing everything. Usually difficult to understand.
  
  
• Neutral (Independent) Evil: Puts self-interest before all else. Will only cooperate when material rewards are high. Untrustworthy; has contempt or fear for all others.

Chaotic

• Chaotic Good: Unwilling to be governed by the laws and desires of any group. Interacts with other characters on a one-to-one basis and, within such bounds, follows the good ethic of upholding creature rights. The stereotypical chaotic good character is the white knight who refuses to join any group and goes about on his own, doing good.
  
  
• Chaotic Neutral : The almost totally unpredictable non-conformist loner. Will stand by and watch the white knight battle the black knight without feeling compelled to take sides.
  
  
• Chaotic Evil: Actively opposes law, order, good, and all other sissy constraints on doing whatever he or she feels like doing. The stereotypical chaotic evil character is the black knight, roaming around on his own, looking for something nasty to do.