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JRSCline · 05-20-2004, 02:27 PM

Ummm. Yeah, I'm getting back into D&D a bit. One of my NCOs is a qualified Dungeon Master, and I can't be all-Roman, all-the-time. (Nothing in excess, right? Oops, that was a Greek aphorism. Oh well!) 
 
So anyway, I was trying to pick an alignment for my half-Hobgoblin cleric the other day, and I started wondering which alignment would suit me best. This led me to wonder how others might see themselves (and others!), especially some of the colorful characters we have on Roman Army Talk. 
 
So, assuming no one here is Evil, and no one's really Chaotic Neutral, choose one of the five options below (sorry, 5 is as many radio buttons as I can offer, but if you really feel Evil or utterly random at heart, do explain!) 
 
Jenny<FORM method=post action="http://p200.ezboard.com/fromanarmytalkfrm2.processVote?topicID=840.topic"><table border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 width="55%"><tbody><tr><td><input type="radio" name="choice" value="1">Lawful Good: I Obey Speed Limits and Break for Animals</td></tr><tr><td><input type="radio" name="choice" value="2">Neutral Good: The Means Don't Matter if the End is Good</td></tr><tr><td><input type="radio" name="choice" value="3">Chaotic Good: If It Harm None, Do as You Wish</td></tr><tr><td><input type="radio" name="choice" value="4">Lawful Neutral: Order Rules!</td></tr><tr><td><input type="radio" name="choice" value="5">Neutral: Everything in Balance</td></tr></tbody></table><input type=submit value="Vote"></form><a HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/fromanarmytalkfrm2.showMessage?topicID=840.topic&pollResults=on>Show results</A>

***Praefectusclassis*** · 05-20-2004, 02:58 PM

My D&D character was chaotic good with a lawful streak. I guess Jen would qualify that as typically Dutch Greets 
 
Jasper

Chariovalda · 05-20-2004, 04:00 PM

I rather think we're lawful neutral, but our self-image and presentation to the outside world is lawful good with a chaotic streak. 
 
But then again, I'm a Lawful Neutral Wizard...

05-20-2004, 04:53 PM

All of my D&D characters have ever been Chaotic Good. I've felt we're all good people at heart, but if something requires us getting our "hands" dirty for the right reasons, we're willing to do it. 
 
I tended to use a lot of Cavaliers, Rangers and Mages. But then, I've taken some oddball classes like Half-Orc Assasins, but with a neutral good/lawful neutral alignment...then gave them some sob story about killing only evil beings. 
 
I used to DM as well...was fun stuff. Got to make up weapons and spells, sometimes new creatures. Fun stuff if you've the imagination for it. Magnus/Matt 
Legio XXX "Ulpia Victrix" 
Niagara Falls, Canada

Hibernicus · 05-20-2004, 05:08 PM

I never really got to play... they MADE me be the DM... 
 
same 5 of us since 1974.. last game we played...hmmm.. ended about 15 years ago.... sigh.... 
 
Took about 10 years to complete it.... played mostly once per week.... highest level any player achieved was about 7... 
 
One of my favorite parts.. about the second year one of them discovered a map.. (an actual map on parchment, aged, scorched, brittle... I liked making props for them) .. about 5 years later the guy who held onto it recognized something in the terrain they we travelling through.. he rummaged about for the map and lo and behold.. stuff lined up! The parchment was so brittle by then that it was flaky and dark like the Dead Sea Scrolls... 
 
We switched to the ICE rules early on pretty much abandoning AD&D. 
 
 
Hibernicus

05-20-2004, 06:11 PM

When I used to play as a kid, my Dad had this inane rule that we could only play lawful good characters (typical, over-lawful Norwegian). The real result was that we just didn't talk about alignment and we really played mostly to our own personalities. I'd inherited too much Scottish-Irish blood to be quite that lawful (even if I did play a cleric name Calvin Cromwell) and really played much closer to neutral good. My brother, with definitely a chaotic personality, always played the thief. A lawful-good thief? Practically a contradiction in terms! Some summers, we'd frequently play all through the night; we got our characters too powerful for our own good, though, and drifted into other RPG's. 
 
Aaron

Jeroen Pelgrom · 05-21-2004, 11:58 AM

hmm, never played D&D, but all my warhammer-armies are evil. Being nice all the time is just so boring.... Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the ark

05-24-2004, 03:28 PM

I enjoyed playing D&D but I always played very difficult characters, and I only started playing in college only what...uh...6 someodd years ago..my first character was a Samurai ronin (old interest) who tried to walk through a magical door/wall (you had to hit a certain number on a D6)...and the wall...knocked me unconsious... 
 
That was within an hour of playing D&D for the first time. 
 
Another character was a Paladin who was obviously all goody-two-shoes and saving the world and crap....After seeing the horrors of the other players being chaotic good turning evil...the Paladin had a major personal-crisis and went insane. 
Doesn't help when you try to convert or show the way to a pair of teenaged female rouges who just for kicks puts a knife in yer back. 
 
Can't save em all I suppose Tongue

And I could never understand the concept of all those dice and THACO and crap. Blech. 
 
anyways...I've since moved onto Warhammer. Have the new edition Empire dudes all in thier Landsknecht glory My spearmen are undefeated and even slaughtered a Giant once...Did the Bolshevik Tsar-Pike-Bounce trick 
And I have lots of cannons and harquebusiers. Ka-Boom. 
 
Evil I am with Gunpowder. -ANDY aka "Roman Dude" Svaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re 
 
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05-28-2004, 07:09 PM

Well it could be complicated, sometimes... be we streamlined them sometimes and didn't find it too hard for the most part. I never could figure out those ICE rules... I guess it was too big of a paradigm shift once we were used to the typical TSR approach. 
 
Aaron

Tasciavanous · 10-12-2004, 08:07 PM

I am the kind of player GM's hate after all I managed to raise my humble Gnome Sholin Accountant to level 20 before I lost interest in derailing carefully worked scenarios into a mass of income assessments and monsters wondering why I was handing them IRS forms with menaces. So now I am amusing my self with a Chaotic good Halfling noble illusionist whose best spells are centered round making himself look taller and more affluent that he really is.

11-02-2004, 08:30 AM

Does the original poll refer to our real-life selves? Anyhoo, that's how I took it; it's been many years since I played D&D. No matter how many times I tell myself to break-out-of-the-box and expand-my-horizons, I always end up as Lawful Good (even when role-playing). I don't know if that's fate, strength of character, or just being really, really boring. [url=http://p211.ezboard.com/fthelotrmoviesitefrm13.showMessage?topicID=1629.topic" target="top]<img src="http://redrocket.homestead.com/files/ptff4.gif" style="border:0;"/>[/url] Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hartlesswench>Hartless Wench</A> at: 11/2/04 9:33 am

12-23-2004, 05:18 PM

some 20 years ago (OMG I'M that old) when I did play, 
I had a Law Evil Anti-Paladin. 
Real Tough SOB to play properly. 
 
Played him like the Villains from James Bond or the DC COmics. 
" I have captured You and this is How I am going to kill you, and there's no escape for you."

Emeraldweapon7d · 02-09-2005, 08:55 PM

i Started playing as totally neutral, but shifted to lawful evil so i could raise the dead

Marcus Artorius Silvanus · 04-13-2005, 11:28 PM

According to the lil Alignment quiz in one of the D&D books (I think it was the hero builders book), I'm Lawful Neutral...which I think is true. I tend to be about order and rules and such...and the neutral, well, I'm a Libra Smile

Though I've been told I play a great evil villian very well, most of my characters have been Neutral Good or Lawful Good.

My wife turned out to be a Neutral Good...(though she does tend to be evil at times...especially when we're boffer fighting...against me!)

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