This is why Hammie tells you that TN is impossible for sentient beings, since our emotions will always pull us one way or the other. That and it's too hard to define.
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This is why Hammie tells you that TN is impossible for sentient beings, since our emotions will always pull us one way or the other. That and it's too hard to define. |
Honestly, I feel like the extremes of any alignment are impossible for sentient beings outside of angels, archons, deities, etc. True True Neutral probably is impossible for a human, sure, but there may very well be humans who seek a balance between good, evil, lawful and chaotic, and while they may trend towards one in particular, that trend may not be strong enough to actually classify them as that alignment. IMO, alignment shouldn't be seen as nine specific slots, but a spectrum. 'Lawful Neutral' doesn't mean your character never makes a choice not based on logic, order and reason, or that they never do good things for the sake of doing good, it's just exceedingly rare for them. Though I do agree that one of 4E's only good things for the changes to the alignment system (I'm not a fan of alignment systems overall) was adding the Unaligned alignment, to break out the 'just doing their thing' True Neutrals from the 'perfect balance' True Neutrals. ...I'll add a list of Neutral heroes later, I swear! |
Until you add he list of heroes, I don't think you have stick your neck out My issue with TN? It inspires the most debate and has too many 'gotcha' moments (as in, a ha, you made a decision based on something you like better! You are not neutral!) to really work. While I will accept extremes are rare, it's much easier to describe LE, CN, NG, etc than TN and remain consistent in doing so. In my gaming experience, someone who claims to be TN is just a few sessions away from being proven wrong And extremes are always rare. But LG people can act LG more than 60% of the time. How do you act neutral all the time? Eventually you favor something Nope, TN is for animals, nature, survival, and non PC characters IMHO |