#alignment description

[mr-kiwi-the-wizard]

Alignment descriptions.

Basic alignments

Good: to be selfless to the point of taking away from yourself.

Generally this only works if everyone else is good. After all 50% to your self and 50% to everyone else well exceeds 100% effort at only three people!

Now that's teamwork!

Evil: to be selfish to the point of taking away from others.

Sometimes no one will help you buy you. And so taking 20% from everyone else is a need not a want. If everyones evil though you can hit rock bottom easy if you're not better than them.

Neutral: to be selfish in a way as to not directly nor indirectly take from another.

Essentially 100% to yourself only. We all have ups and downs though. We can't give 100% every day. So when we're under we take and when we're over we give. Naturally neutral like good people so they never need to take.

Lawful: to act in a way that is predictive and that has been agreed upon by others who are not you.

If you don't steal you never steal. If you punch first you always punch first. It's easy to get to know you because you act deliberately and openly and in character.

Chaotic: to act in a way that no stranger will ever be able to fully understand without spending much time learning about you specifically.

You never act the same. You could say one thing and do another. You keep secrets that people should know. You do things with reason context or build up. Simply untrustworthy but it's not like you have better choices.

Extreame alignments

True Good: to act in a manner that not only expects but otherwise forces everyone else to be selfless whether they like it or not.

Since being good requires teamwork there's no need to be nice after all. Chores, time tables. Everyone will participate so everyone has it easier.

True Evil: to act in a manner that demands everyone else act in an equally selfish if not simply self serving manner at the expense of everyone inside and outside your group.

Like robbing a grocery store so often it shuts down or has to hike the prices to the point we're everyone needs to steal and Rob the grocery store. Somethings are essential after all.

True Lawful: to act as an arbiter of truth and rightousness. To police everyone and their actions so they act as they should.

Stupid laws and nonsense orders will not deter you from doing as asked or ordered. We all need to do what is needed of us or people get confused and irrational.

True Chaotic: to act purposefully to make everything and everyone not make sense around you so that someone cannot even address you without completing your homebrew mental gymnastics you made up for today. Tomorrow you may or may not have a new set they need to spin through.

Individualism to the point of being unable to be understood without direct engagement. Such people are terrifying to strangers. Especially strangers who have been harmed or wronged in the past by unknown people.

Balanced: to be directly and utterly opposed to any true alignment to the point of siding against it at every given opportunity irrelevant of what that requires of you.

Because we all need to live together and certain extreams can and will hurt each other and their members.

[bardiclore]

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.

Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order.

Neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Creatures of neutral good alignment believe that there must be some regulation in combination with freedoms if the best is to be brought to the world--the most beneficial conditions for living things in general and intelligent creatures in particular.  Creatures of this alignment see the cosmos as a place where law and chaos are merely tools to use in bringing life, happiness, and prosperity to all deserving creatures. Order is not good unless it brings this to all; neither is randomness and total freedom desirable if it does not bring such good. 

Neutral goods value both personal freedom and adherence to laws.  They feel that too many laws may unnecessarily restrict the freedom of good beings. They also believe that too much freedom may not protect society as a whole and encourage counterproductive divisions and in-fighting. They promote governments which hold broad powers, but do not interfere in the day-to-day lives of their citizens.

These characters value life and freedom above all else, and despise those who would deprive others of them.  Neutral good characters sometimes find themselves forced to work beyond the law, yet for the law, and the greater good of the people.  They are not vicious or vindictive, but are people driven to right injustice.  Neutral good characters always attempt to work within the law whenever possible, however.

To a neutral good being, life and the assurance of other creatures' rights take precedence over all else.  This is not to say that this character will have an aversion to taking another's life when faced with a choice between an attacker's and his own, however.  Neutral good beings also believe that law and chaos are merely tools to use in bringing life, prosperity, and happiness to all deserving creatures.  

Neither numbers nor individual concerns have any bearing on decisions regarding the needs and rights of any given creature.  In other words, in the view of a neutral good being, rarely will either the needs of the many or the personal desires of an individual outweigh the needs of any other creature.  All life is given even-handed treatment.

As with all alignments neutral with respect to law and chaos, self-reliance is a cornerstone of a neutral good being's personality.  In a crunch, neutral good characters trust in themselves and in no other individual or group.  This doesn't mean they can't make friends and develop trusting relationships with others, however.  Neutral good beings aren't normally as independent as chaotic good beings, and they can cooperate in groups.  But they won't always trust a group to be more effective than they could be themselves.

A neutral good character will keep his word to those who are not evil and will lie only to evil-doers.  He will never attack an unarmed foe and will never harm an innocent.  He will not use torture to extract information or for pleasure.  He will never kill for pleasure, only in self-defense or in the defense of others.  A neutral good character will never use poison.  He will help those in need and works well alone or in a group.  He responds well to higher authority until that authority attempts to use the law to hamper his ability to do good.  He is trustful of organizations as long as they serve his utilitarian purpose.  He will follow the law unless more good can come from breaking the law.  He will never betray a family member, comrade, or friend.  Neutral good characters are indifferent to the concepts of self-discipline and honor, finding them useful only if they promote goodness.

Here are some possible adjectives describing neutral good characters: self-reliant, helpful, courteous, kind, respectful, sensitive, friendly, loving, merciful, gracious, humane, altruistic, giving, respectful, and protective of life.

(source: http://easydamus.com/neutralgood.html)