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Something I made up after seeing some others.Related content
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Just recently I tried to explain alignments to my new D&D party... first thing I did was to show them this chart. After YEARS it's still the best one I saw
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Yeah. I've been playing Pathfinder now for quite a while and I still reference this and it's the first resource I show people whom I'm trying to help understand it. One of the big things to remember is that while the characters, with a few exceptions, are pretty good exemplars of each alignment a character can fit the alignment and be quite different from the example here.
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Of course it's not perfect, but it gives one understanding of alignments
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The most universal and agreeable chart of them all!
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Just sayin, Captn Mal is Chaotic Good. He's an anti-hero, and rebel. Neutral good implies he does good all the time, because he can, not because of the law or for a reward.
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At the LAWFUL EVIL quip
I read this in the voice of James Earl Jones.
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The best way to teach people alignments and their explanations. It's always good to relate the things you've learnt to the things you like.
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I'm a agent of chaos- Joker the dark knight
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This is actually a really good chart. I think the characters and quotes you chose line up pretty well. It's really hard to file some complex characters under a neat little category correctly, but I think you pretty much nailed them.
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Cinema has been teaching us alignment for years without us even knowing it.
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Awsome. But where is True Neutral from? ITs the only one i didn't recognise.
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Treebeard, from The Lord of the Rings!
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I love all of them but.... I've seen so much of The Next Generation that my mind is in pain when he was labeled neural. He's Lawful Good for sure.
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This is amazing. And actually a really good teaching tool
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These are fantastic - thank you for sharing them. Really helped a lot in clarifying something that non-RPGβers tend to have some difficulty understanding.
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Great job, my favorite of this meme so far. I loved D&D
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oh and George Takei posted a copy on his Facebook btw..
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I know. IMMD. Actually, IMMY, at least on the internet.
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True Neutral looks like Treebeard, but it looks like there's buildings or something in the background, so that can't be right. Great quote though.
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that IS treebeard, and it's just burnt trees in the background
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ah-hah. thanks for the head's up
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I only disagree with the Neutral Evil selection.. Xenomorphs are driven by instinct, and even the xenomorph queen, while somewhat vindictive, was going after the threat that just killed her offspring. The Alien xenomorphs are pretty much neutral.
Now, a better Neutral Evil is SkyNet, at least as far as it relates to humans.
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Xenomorphs are definitely neutral evil. You said yourself that they are driven by instinct, and their instinct is to kill anything that moves. The definition of a neutral evil character is someone who does whatever it takes to survive, regardless of the rules or whoever/whatever gets in their way. They are out for number 1, themselves. This is evidenced in the movie Alien Resurrection where 2 xenomorphs kill one of their own kind and spill his acid blood on the floor so they could escape their prison. There certainly are better examples of neutral evil out there, but xenomorphs do fit the category.
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Wouldn't that make a tiger Neutral Evil?
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You described a neutral evil character like so: "Someone who does whatever it takes to survive, regardless of the rules or whoever/whatever gets in their way." That is the exact definition of a neutral character. The alien killing one of their own kind to escape their prison? There are plenty of animals who would and do kill their own in order to survive.
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But per the rules, animals can't be anything but true neutral. In order to have an alignment other than true neutral, a being must have the capacity to understand moral action. A xenomorph is not sapient, and therefore is incapable of moral choices.
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So THIS is where it came from!
George Takei approves.
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Sweet! I had no idea he had picked it up.
I have the George Takei seal of approval (tm). Fantastic!
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I just LOVE this!!! every one of them is perfectly chosen!
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Mal Reynolds, gotta go with that one, in this or any other 'verse.
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This is absolutely awesome. Love the quotes. Great work!
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Who is neutral good???
And why alien is evil???
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Neutral evil is "looking out for number one", mening only really cares about themself and don't care about what happens too others
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You don't recognize Captain Reynolds from "Firefly?" You, sir, fail. Go watch that show.
Right.
Now.
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