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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
 Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 13:00:22
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Poll Question:
Which alignment are you most likely to play?
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The brave don't live forever,the cautious don't live at all |
Edited by - Aravine on 19 Dec 2007 14:54:47
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Ugly is the new black
Seeker
Australia
81 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 13:05:05
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Unfortunately, I'm going to have to ask you to define what you mean by "best".
love,
nathan. |
As he knelt on the ground with his brothers around and the taste of his blood on his tongue,
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 13:21:32
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| which is the most fun to play/encounter? |
The brave don't live forever,the cautious don't live at all |
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Sian
Senior Scribe
Denmark
596 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 14:05:38
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| depends on the race, class, character scheme, group, DM and a couple of other things |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 14:26:19
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| I voted Neutral Good because that is what I am in real life....I mean well, do good things, and tend to follow most rules to do so but will bend them for the greater good, I am not bound by them :) |
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Seeker
Australia
81 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 14:42:45
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I went with Lawful Good. You'd think that it would be the most common alignment, but it's often hard to find people who want to play it. It's like people see the words lawful and good, and they avoid it like the plague so as not to cause themselves (or the group) some kind of moral dilemma. I mean, it's not like a lawful good fighter is going to wax intellectual with you about the consequences of hacking an orcish raider to bits. By and large, even Paladins in D&D tend to believe that morals should applied on the end of a sword. I don't know where people got the idea that lawful good translated into "boring", but in my opinion, that's what's happened. And that's unfortunate, because I think they can be really fun to play.
love,
nathan. |
As he knelt on the ground with his brothers around and the taste of his blood on his tongue,
His brothers knelt by him and prayed him a prayer, and he smiled and he laughed and he sung,
"Brothers, oh brothers, my days here are done, the Dornishman's taken my life,
But what does it matter? For all men must die, and I've tasted the Dornishman's wife!" |
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Varl
Learned Scribe
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 14:55:56
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I choose the All of the Above option. But, since this is a poll, CE. Why? It's the one alignment that typically means the action will be commencing shortly for no other reason than it wants you dead. Once you're dead, then it can ponder the philosophical.  |
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sirreus
Learned Scribe
USA
118 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 16:43:19
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| i went with cg. personally i consider myself ng |
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
1720 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 16:50:31
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Originally posted by Sian
depends on the race, class, character scheme, group, DM and a couple of other things
I second that. Therefore this question is no so easy to answer and I did not vote on this poll....... However, to give my thoughts on this:
I do not like NE as a players choise as it is seems to most the easiest to play - do what you like on each and every turn. It'S the cheap way out of each dilema. IMO this does not always fit the bill of the alignment though... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 16:55:45
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| I prefer NG, because that's mostly how I see myself (I also have tendencies towards both CN and CG). My fave good alignments are NG and CG, in that order. My fave evil alignments are NE and LE, because for me, those are the easiest to grasp. The neutral alignments I generally don't mess with. |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 17:08:09
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| i favor neutral good because i do not favor law or (chuckles) unlaw. i do however strongly favor good over evil |
The brave don't live forever,the cautious don't live at all |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2007 : 17:12:45
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| Well, I have mostly DM'ed since the early 90's, so the alignment I use will wary with each adventure. Most of the time I dont use them at all. Lawful evil or neutral evil would be my favorites for villains and Chaotic good for npc's if I have to choose. |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Daviot
Senior Scribe
USA
372 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 00:45:55
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| In real life, I'm probably closest to Lawful Good, but to be a bit nitty and gritty, I enjoy playing Lawful Neutral. All the personal honor without moral obligation to "save" those who aren't connected to you. And the notion that a "good" aligned spell is just as allowable as one with an "evil" descriptor. |
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Wandering_mage
Senior Scribe
688 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 00:52:10
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| NG all the way. Do gooders unite! Unless it is Friday night... I do the CE Talos Cleric thing on Friday Night. Accompanied by the thunder of Doritos being consumed, mwahahahaha!!!! |
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Darkmeer
Senior Scribe
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 01:26:18
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I voted NG... Mostly because (like others) I view myself as such.
Now, as to the other alignments for playing, I choose any of the Good alignments & lawful Neutral to play myself,
As a DM, I love to run a good LE/NE group... they are quite nasty, and are capable of great measures of cooperation to get the final goal.
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 02:15:30
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I like to play chaotic neutral because it is pretty far from who I really am LG, but not over into the realm of evil - although that makes for some great role play as well.
I think that any type of chaotic character adds to the party since they are more unpredictable. |
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He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness. 
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Marquant Volker
Learned Scribe
Greece
273 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 03:08:59
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| From the results it seems that we are a bunch of do-gooders bah |
Edited by - Marquant Volker on 25 Sep 2007 03:09:26 |
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darkhuntress
Acolyte
USA
17 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2007 : 03:26:21
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Originally posted by Marquant Volker
From the results it seems that we are a bunch of do-gooders bah
Not me, honey, I'm Chaotic Neutral all the way. Freedom is the most important thing to me; I absolutely hate being told what to do.
I tend to play Chaotic Good characters, mostly because I can't stand rules and minutia getting in the way of doing the right thing. Law = boring and monotonous to me.
I played a Neutral Evil PC once, which was awesomely fun. She was a selfish cow and I had a ton of fun hamming it up with her. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 02:17:33
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| I'm pretty square--I like all the good alignments (LG, NG, CG), and I would generally only play one of them. I don't find neutral or evil alignments to be satisfying. What can I say, I like being a hero. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 05:53:51
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I'm pretty square--I like all the good alignments (LG, NG, CG), and I would generally only play one of them. I don't find neutral or evil alignments to be satisfying. What can I say, I like being a hero.
Well, as I've said before, I want to one time try playing a single NE character in an otherwise good-aligned group. It has the potential to be very interesting.  |
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 17:38:54
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Well, as I've said before, I want to one time try playing a single NE character in an otherwise good-aligned group. It has the potential to be very interesting.
Been there - done that. They all died - I didn't.  |
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He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness.
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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1120 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 17:43:27
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| I vote in Lawful Good. You know, I´m a very paladinesque dwarf. |
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Pharaun Mizzrym
Acolyte
Canada
34 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2007 : 01:07:53
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| Neutral Evil, I just like the sociopathic description it has |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 03 Oct 2007 : 00:58:39
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I'm pretty square--I like all the good alignments (LG, NG, CG), and I would generally only play one of them. I don't find neutral or evil alignments to be satisfying. What can I say, I like being a hero.
Well, as I've said before, I want to one time try playing a single NE character in an otherwise good-aligned group. It has the potential to be very interesting.
That would be interesting. But if I were in that group, odds are I would not want to be the evil character. |
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Warrax
Learned Scribe
Canada
128 Posts |
Posted - 03 Oct 2007 : 01:51:59
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I always thought the alignment system in DND was absolutely horrible and a complete waste of time. It's nice to think of a guide-post description of your actions but codifying them into categories that share similar characteristics is just... it seems to rob the individual experience of its identity. Motivations change for people based on events in their lives and can dramatically alter a person's approach to a given situation. Prejudice can make an otherwise pleasant, law-abiding and generally "good" person into a savage monster who'd be more fitting as a CE villainous type, you know?
That said, if forced at the end of a gun, I'd venture that the alignments that appeal most to me are a properly-played Chaotic Neutral character or something in the NE/LE vein.
But then, the conventional 9 alignments of DND tend to miss character types like the anti-hero; find me a good alignment that appropriately encompasses that archetype. CG doesn't cut it by its listed definition, for example, and neither does it fit into any of the neutral or evil categories. *shrugs* |
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2007 : 13:36:18
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quote:
Originally posted by Warrax
I always thought the alignment system in DND was absolutely horrible and a complete waste of time. It's nice to think of a guide-post description of your actions but codifying them into categories that share similar characteristics is just... it seems to rob the individual experience of its identity. Motivations change for people based on events in their lives and can dramatically alter a person's approach to a given situation. Prejudice can make an otherwise pleasant, law-abiding and generally "good" person into a savage monster who'd be more fitting as a CE villainous type, you know?
That said, if forced at the end of a gun, I'd venture that the alignments that appeal most to me are a properly-played Chaotic Neutral character or something in the NE/LE vein.
But then, the conventional 9 alignments of DND tend to miss character types like the anti-hero; find me a good alignment that appropriately encompasses that archetype. CG doesn't cut it by its listed definition, for example, and neither does it fit into any of the neutral or evil categories. *shrugs*
if you read the discription part of the Players handbook, you'll realize that even if there are only 9 categories, those categories are very broad |
The brave don't live forever,the cautious don't live at all |
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BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2007 : 16:22:48
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There is no best alignment .. Every alignment think itself best from it's point of view and from the point of view of the person who possess it and express it...
i like to play chaotic good characters ,if that is what do you mean, and i will vote to this alignment!!! |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2007 : 18:58:52
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| I never had a problem of the Good-Evil axis, but I always thought that "Lawful" was a bit of a misnomer, and that "Order" or something similar would make more since. |
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GRYPHON
Senior Scribe
USA
527 Posts |
Posted - 02 Dec 2007 : 18:59:17
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| Lawful Evil... |
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RIMV
Acolyte
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2007 : 18:36:14
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| For myself, I definitely think NE is the most fun the play, but I also like NG, N and CG as just as well. |
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