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Chaotic Neutral, though I retook it and got Neutral.
 
I got Neutral, I was being reasonable about being society so I got neutral on that axis and I probably got neutral on the good-evil one because I took too many cowardly choice even if I avoided being opportunistic.
 
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I got Chaotic Evil, but I'm not 100% sure if that would be accurate for me.
 
Looks like I'm Chaotic Neutral. I changed a couple of answers and got Chaotic Good, so it's kind of up in the air.
 
I got true neutral.

But I can't be the only person who never cared for the deterministic manner that dnd handles characterization. It just makes characters so much less interesting. Though it's fun to watch dnd spergs start stimming because you make a character do something that doesn't fit their precious alignment.
 
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Alec Benson Leary said:
I got true neutral.

But I can't be the only person who never cared for the deterministic manner that dnd handles characterization. It just makes characters so much less interesting. Though it's fun to watch dnd spergs start stimming because you make a character do something that doesn't fit their precious alignment.
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In theory, these alignments should just represent the predominant traits of the character. Otherwise you get these autistic, edgy Chaotic Evil characters who literally don't do anything that isn't evil, or almost as annoying, Lawful Good types who are insufferable goody two-shoes types at all times. While there is some room for characters like this, for instance, the Joker, the vast majority of characters are not going to be like this.

So maybe your paladin gets drunk sometimes and flies off the handle, or your mostly villainous guy sometimes actually does something benevolent.

People are complicated. Some have noted that successful entrepreneurs often have a lot of the same character traits as sociopaths, in that they're generally willing to sacrifice the interests of others for their goals without much regret, among other things. The difference is when Jeffrey Dahmer is done, you have a pile of murder victims, but when J. P. Morgan or Steve Jobs are done, you have a railroad across the country, or a huge business empire.

So it's difficult to say these people could be "evil" or some really vague "alignment" when they actually do things with good results.
 
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Neutral

A neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. She doesn’t feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most neutrality is a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil. After all, she would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, she’s not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. The common phrase for neutral is "true neutral." Neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion
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See, if this definition means "true neutral" in dnd then I think every creative character should be true neutral. If someone creates a "lawful evil" orc or dwarf or whatever, I already know how they're going to play that character in every situation.
 
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Neutral

Probably because all the questions were mostly unrelatable. I dont care about politics or community or people I don't know. I don't really have any motivational to gain wealth or to help people or to lie or tell the truth. My beliefs died a while back. I never had any dreams and I 'll succumb to however I'm feeling in the situation. Whether it is to escape or get it over it or just feeling my way through a path. There is no wrong path. For me being neutral is either being broken or having my own internal mechanism to respond to the tone of the environment. If I had close friends I'd probably never betray them. But if they ever betray me I would probably drop them into the abyss and if I chosed to continue being friends with them it would be broken until it fell apart. It definitely isn't some middle way enlightenment. It's a completely self-absorbed process of self-expression that could be genocidal or happy-go lucky or completely esoteric depending on the path that existence takes me.
 
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AnOminous said:
While there is some room for characters like this, for instance, the Joker, the vast majority of characters are not going to be like this.
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See, I always play a character that's joker-esque, but I'm still just neutral. And I play that way to throw an interesting wrench into the gears, but I don't screw over my party members or the plot just because.
 
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