What's your alignment?

[sleekie]

Neutral, which tells me that it's just using a pair of sliding scales.

I'm no big fan of the 9-point alignment system, it's too impractical. If there's two things I've learned over the years:

1) Most people are not the alignment they like to think they are, primarily because they don't have the courage of their convictions

2) Most people are neutral. They don't like extremes of anything.

 

[Rainforce]

Neutral, which tells me that it's just using a pair of sliding scales.

I'm no big fan of the 9-point alignment system, it's too impractical. If there's two things I've learned over the years:

1) Most people are not the alignment they like to think they are, primarily because they don't have the courage of their convictions

2) Most people are neutral. They don't like extremes of anything.

yep, that's a shame.

on topic: I slide between chaotic good and lawful evil.

 

[jultub]

Lawful good appearently. Seeing how I would tear down the tenets of the culture I live in if I ever got the chance it seems like the lawful part is a bit off.

 

[sleekie]

Chaotic Neutral, or in other words
WHATEV'A, I DO WHAT I WANT!!

People like you are the reason Chaotic was largely axed from 4th ed. Chaotic is not I do whatever I want, it is opposing institutional authority at all times, even when I otherwise agree with the authority. You're just neutral.

People like you are why the whole alignment system should be axed. You've just stuck your subjective, and rather narrow, interpretation in there and called it objective. By this logic, any lawful character would uphold institutional authority even if they disagreed with it.

No. All lawful means at its core, is that the character follows some sort of stricture, order, or pattern. An authority is just one possibility. you don't have to follow all of them. Think monks.

 

[Digital_Hero]

Chaotic Good, but i've known this for years. Gotten in trouble for it too >_>

Damn things don't like making up their minds, its always bouncing between Chaotic good, neutral, and evil :[ why! stupid flickering personality =_=

 

[Reptiloid]

Chaotic Neutral. No surprise there.

 

[Dupeo]

Chaotic Good.
I know that because I know that I am willing to burn this system down if you can convince me that the result of revolution is better than what we have now.

 

[imnot]

Neutral Lawful.
ABout right

 

[theamazingbean]

Chaotic Neutral, or in other words
WHATEV'A, I DO WHAT I WANT!!

People like you are the reason Chaotic was largely axed from 4th ed. Chaotic is not I do whatever I want, it is opposing institutional authority at all times, even when I otherwise agree with the authority. You're just neutral.

People like you are why the whole alignment system should be axed. You've just stuck your subjective, and rather narrow, interpretation in there and called it objective. By this logic, any lawful character would uphold institutional authority even if they disagreed with it.

No. All lawful means at its core, is that the character follows some sort of stricture, order, or pattern. An authority is just one possibility. you don't have to follow all of them. Think monks.

Your version of lawful is entirely meaningless, since almost any manner of conduct can be codified into a pattern, even if that pattern is only visible in the abstract. Furthermore, it is in almost complete departure from the use of alignment in the game. Alignment's initial implementation was as a balance feature for certain classes (i.e. act evil lose powers), in that regard it is supposed to be narrow and constricting. The textbook challenge for paladins was to send them to lawful evil kingdoms, and let their concern for others and their respect for authority duke it out. While this sort of behavior can hinder some kinds of role-playing, I'm not particularly sad to see alignment systems go, but playing the moral relativity card to reduce all alignments to samey ambitiousness is not the way to go.

 

[shane211]

I'm Neutral Good, which according to the quiz is the best alignment you can be, so I'll take it.

 

[AngryPuppy]

Based on your answers to the quiz, your character?s most likely alignment is Chaotic Neutral.

Chaotic Neutral

A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn?t strive to protect others? freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. The chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). The common phrase for chaotic neutral is "true chaotic." Remember that the chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it. Chaotic neutral is the best alignment you can be because it represents true freedom both from society?s restrictions and from a do-gooder?s zeal.

 

[sleekie]

Chaotic Neutral, or in other words
WHATEV'A, I DO WHAT I WANT!!

People like you are the reason Chaotic was largely axed from 4th ed. Chaotic is not I do whatever I want, it is opposing institutional authority at all times, even when I otherwise agree with the authority. You're just neutral.

People like you are why the whole alignment system should be axed. You've just stuck your subjective, and rather narrow, interpretation in there and called it objective. By this logic, any lawful character would uphold institutional authority even if they disagreed with it.

No. All lawful means at its core, is that the character follows some sort of stricture, order, or pattern. An authority is just one possibility. you don't have to follow all of them. Think monks.

Your version of lawful is entirely meaningless, since almost any manner of conduct can be codified into a pattern, even if that pattern is only visible in the abstract. Furthermore, it is in almost complete departure from the use of alignment in the game. Alignment's initial implementation was as a balance feature for certain classes (i.e. act evil lose powers), in that regard it is supposed to be narrow and constricting. The textbook challenge for paladins was to send them to lawful evil kingdoms, and let their concern for others and their respect for authority duke it out. While this sort of behavior can hinder some kinds of role-playing, I'm not particularly sad to see alignment systems go, but playing the moral relativity card to reduce all alignments to samey ambitiousness is not the way to go.

While I would cheerfully dispute everything you've just said, I'm not going to. The mere fact that we disagree on this is the problem I have with the system. You can say all that, but if I'm the GM, guess what? You're wrong, and in terms of the gameworld, objectively wrong.

I once asked a couple of fellow Shadowrun players what they thought the 9-point alignments of our Shadowrun characters were. We all agreed on my character's alignment, but then we all gave a different alignment for the other two characters. In particular, one character drew LG, CG, and LE. That's a diametric opposite there. Same actions observed, totally different interpretation. Now put one of us in charge, and therefore defining morals for the whole world, and let the other start acting in that world. Problems arise. Doesn't matter who's right. Unless you have the ghost of Gary sitting at your gaming table making judgement calls, you can't call it objective. (And even then..)

 

[ethaninja]

Chaotic Neutral. I knew it

 

[Sunrider]

I'm apparently Chaotic Evil. This was....very unexpected. I expected a chaotic neutral or lawful evil to be honest. Oh well.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I would say I'm Chaotic Neutral, but according to this I'm Chaotic Evil.

 

[Srdjan]

True Neutral, I usually get Chaotic Good or Neutral Evil.

 

[yami0333]

Lawful Good, also 6 posts before the argument started about Batman's alignment... thaat has to be a new record for longest time not arguing about it.

 

[yami0333]

I'm Neutral Good, which according to the quiz is the best alignment you can be, so I'll take it.

That's strange? the quiz told me that lawful good was the best alignment I could be...what is this madness?


Of course this is just for humor

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Chaotic Good, huh.
I seem to drift all over the Good spectrum. Every time I do this thing I get a different result.
Just can't seem to decide how I feel about that pesky Law.