which alignment are you? [D&D]

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The "How evil are you" thread had me thinking about the D&D alignment.

Which alignment are you? Take the test here.

The questions are meant to be answered "in character", but it's fun to try to genuinely answer them.

My result is "Lawful Neutral".

Neutral Evil

A neutral evil villain does whatever she can get away with. She is out for herself, pure and simple. She sheds no tears for those she kills, whether for profit, sport, or convenience. She has no love of order and holds no illusion that following laws, traditions, or codes would make her any better or more noble. On the other hand, she doesn’t have the restless nature or love of conflict that a chaotic evil villain has. The criminal who robs and murders to get what she wants is neutral evil. Some neutral evil villains hold up evil as an ideal, committing evil for its own sake. Most often, such villains are devoted to evil deities or secret societies. The common phrase for neutral evil is "true evil." Neutral evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents pure evil without honor and without variation.

Neutral Good

A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. The common phrase for neutral good is "true good." Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias toward or against order.

My favorite role playing character is chaotic evil. Makes sense. He's a demon. I couldn't answer the test for myself because I haven't been in similar situations to most of the questions.

Lawful Chaotic
or
Chaotic Lawful

Depends on the day.

Lawful Neutral

A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs her. Order and organization are paramount to her. She may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or she may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. The common phrase for lawful neutral is "true lawful." Lawful neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot.

Neutral

A neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. She doesn’t feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most neutrality is a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil. After all, she would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, she’s not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. The common phrase for neutral is "true neutral." Neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion.

I expected that alignment.

Nice avatar.. Are you drinking tea?
The test assumes that you are "in character". Of course you will never find yourself pondering whether to poison your King, but it is a roleplaying experiment to try to think what you would do if you were to find yourself in a high fantasy world.

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.

Neutral

A neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. She doesn’t feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most neutrality is a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil. After all, she would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, she’s not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. The common phrase for neutral is "true neutral." Neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion.

Lawful Neutral

Thank you! I'm not drinking tea at the moment, but I like tea, and I'm in an art club that's about drawing and drinking tea. So as an avatar I drew myself with a cup of tea. Does that make sense?
Roleplaying... Ugh. I figured it's about assuming another personality, and it's fun, but my style in roleplaying games has been commented on frequently. For example, in real life it's perfectly normal to be obsessive about clothes, fashion, interior design and cooking, but having a roleplaying character with that obsession seems to be not-so-normal. (And I played my mage with the fashion tic more than 6 years. She got into a lot of trouble once refusing to wear a magic ring because it clashed horribly with her robe.) Fortunately, the people I was playing with didn't mind. They thought it was original.
(By the way, I most likely wouldn't poison anyone, no matter how much they p***ed me off, though some of my roleplaying characters certainly would.)

Wow, you drew that? It is really nice. It gets me the impression that the girl is cooling the tea with her breath, but so softly that I can hardly see her opening her mouth.. so I look at her mouth with more attention and her mouth is closed. As I look in her eyes again, I get the same impression again.

It feels a little bit like the music in this game:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/DifferenceGames/dreams



What you describe is what I actually understand as good roleplaying, so I don't see anything strange about it. These traits help make the character believable, and make playing more diverse and fun.


hehe that's a chaotic character right there

It feels a little bit chaotic neutral, but I can see it in a chaotic evil character too.



So if you take the test, you can answer that you would not poison him.

Lawful Neutral

A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs her. Order and organization are paramount to her. She may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or she may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. The common phrase for lawful neutral is "true lawful." Lawful neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot.

--excerpted from the Player’s Handbook, Chapter 6

Keep in mind the alignment suggested by the quiz is just that: a suggestion. It describes your character no better than a 36-question test would describe you. But it’s a good way to start thinking about how your character acts when confronted with issues of alignment.

Now that your character has taken the test, make a note of which questions scored in the opposite direction from your overall alignment. These exceptions can tell some interesting tales about your character Are you a good character with a greedy streak? Are you a lawful character who can’t stand the village elders? Don’t just roleplay your alignment -- roleplay your alignment exceptions, too. Few characters perfectly embody their alignment choice.

cl7, thanks! The drawing is actually quite old, but I kept it as my avatar anyway. I got used to it.

And that character scored chaotic neutral, you were right about that.

I like to play lots of different (and somewhat unusual) characters, and some of them can't even answer that test in character.
One of them is a little girl (about 4 years old, cute though annoying, a bit naive, obsessed with cookies, needs to pee in the most inappropriate situations, such as once during a very dark and obscure ceremony, and once while her daddy was declaring a war) growing up in a truly villainous family (so her moral upbringing is... questionable, though she doesn't understand much of the hateful propaganda she is fed anyway and repeats it to others with small mistakes that make it amusing). She frequently messes up statements about religious topics (from the point of view of evil, of course), table manners, sandpit games, cookies, where the babies come from (the conversation where her family tried to explain THAT one to her was hilarious, and of course a total and epic failure), war propaganda and so on. While being insanely cute. Oh, and she wants to be a thief when she's all grown up, but still has some difficulties with knots, so her first attempt was not particularly successful. Her victims caught her and ended up baking cookies with her (while she was happily making a mess of their kitchen).
One is a demon who deserted from the armies of darkness and spends most of his time in the tavern, getting drunk with humans (which made for some REALLY interesting philosophical conversations).
One is a religious fanatic ready for holy war (tasteless, but oh so amusing in roleplay).
And, yeah, that mage with the fashion obsession is actually quite normal in comparison (though she's regularly beating her husband with the rolling pin, which is entirely his fault for being unfaithful).
All these characters are fun to play.

Now I took that test for myself as a character, and I scored Neutral Good.