Which Alignment is your favorite?
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Which Alignment is your favorite?
Is it due to the alignment aligning with personal beliefs? Or the opposite?
Perhaps it's exciting to roleplay a persona that is far more different than yours. Feel free to vote in silence or voice your reason(s).
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Overall I prefer NE. I struggle to play 'good' characters and being Neutral Evil gives me the freedom to do what I want without falling to far into Chaos or being bound by a strict code.
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I tend to portray Lawful/Chaos ethics as more about a willingness to be constrained by society's rules for the benefit of the many than anything directly about the forces of the cosmos or caring about a guard's authority. For example, if my chaotic neutral character hates bullies, and he catches them in the act, there's no reason he might not take the time to point the bully out to a local guard and really ruin his day - he may not enjoy the idea of someone else doing the same to him, but that's got nothing to do with right now. If the guards try to nab him later, he's almost certain to book it unless he knows he can prove he's innocent.
I think True Neutral and Chaotic Neutral represent the vast majority of humanity's instinctive ethical and moral inclinations.
When I want a challenge, I go Lawful Good, because it has the most restrictive set of options for resolving most encounters, and finding ways to do it that are interesting for both sides leads to some epic moments.
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My least favorite (despite how popular it seems to be here!) is CN, mostly because I don't know what they stand for. It doesn't work for a mercenary, because even they have a code and can follow orders to some extent making them more LN/TN. You can't just let people suffer because that makes you evil...yeah, I just don't get it, it seems to me to be the most aimless and therefore hardest to build a concept around.
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Anyways most of my characters both on NWN and in PnP have been neutral evil. It's one of the most freeing alignments in how versatile it is, ultimately. Neutral evil is the embodiment of selfishness, sometimes the most self serving thing you can do is work for the good guy paladins because of the rewards you get, etc.
You can make neutral evil fit into about anything.
From a moral standpoint, my second favorite alignment is probably lawful neutral. It's very interesting to have to weigh different obligations against each other balanced against self interest. A situation that I think encapsulates it very well is in Robert's Rebellion in A Song of Ice and Fire Stannis had to choose between siding with the rebels (his family) or with his king.
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I was super tired when I made my post, and therefore it was incomplete. First let me state that its just my opinion based on me picking an alignment, and I'm not telling anyone how they should do their thing. I'm not the alignment police, and D&D alignments are so black and white that they don't really work for real world analogies anyways. But since I personally can't help compare the two, I find anything I come up with for a CN character to be too evil or too good to be worthy of the title. Just an easy example, a CN pirate who is with a bunch of evil pirates pillaging a boat and killing off sailors may see themselves as neutral because they are "Just along for the ride", but your lack of feelings for those people from their perspective is definitely going to have said soon to be dead sailors thinking you are just as evil as the pirates doing the killing.
Again, that's just based on my opinion when choosing alignments for my character, but in my opinion outside perspective is just as important when deciding alignment as the internal one. The most interesting villains in any story tend to think they are the good guys after all, but that doesn't make them any less evil.
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CN and NE are extremely similar anyways, I feel. NE is just CN but lacks the good aspect of it. Or that's how I always end up going by it, some characters being extremely ambiguous in if they should be NE or CN..
Then again, I enjoy good Lawful Good, if played correctly. Paladins galore!
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Good vs Evil: Preference Neutral
Answer to the question about char vs "me", is that the game makes me experiment with chars much different from myself, so I use the game to explore my lesser used alignments, to see what happens, and maybe (I said "maybe") use that in my real life.
That's probably why I like this game so much
Looking back over my chars over years, I think I played any combination of alignment, except for NE
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