What Alignment do you play?

[TheLastSamurai14]

Chaotic Good, with a bit of Neutral Good at times. I like helping people, but sometimes the morality of the law is questionable, regardless of whether or not the end result is beneficial. Basically, I'll do everything to ensure that people aren't oppressed by the local law enforcement, and try to change said law enforcement to be more friendly to the average citizen.

 

[Ravnican]

Neutral Good, even though I often play a half-orc fighter. What can I say? I like to play a nice guy as I often find it hard to be a dick to others.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

Me: "Hey, NCR dudes what's up."
NCR: "Help us save the captured NCR soldiers from the Legion."
Me: "I don't know. I don't really have a problem with them. They kinda let me do my thing and y'know, I really don't want to screw that up."
NCR: "Please, we'll pay you lots of caps, and the leader of the Legion camp has a unique machete that you can have after you kill him."
Me: "I don't know it still seems, wait did you say unique machete?"
NCR: "Uh, yeah?"

Five minutes later...

Yay, I got the Liberator. Here Legion come here boys. >


Basically I'm an item whore. Money, don't need it. Fame, too much exposure. Shiny weapons, HELL YEAH!

 

[him over there]

I play chaotic good, mostly because it seems to be quite underdone.

 

[Chaos-Spider]

The one tie that I've actually put alignment on my character sheet so far I've put down my alignment as chaotic neutral (the DM put the alignments down based on our actions in the first few level 0 sessions of the campaign).

That's what I get for intimidating a fellow party member into putting a dead guy's underwear on their head as a turban for no apparent reason other than to look like the villain from the first Harry potter book (both characters were wizards called Quirrel).

 

[Colodomoko]

True Neutral, not the perfect balance type, the type where the scales are constantly swaying and my actions can go anywhere for any reason.

 

[Eric Morales]

Neutral Good, leaning towards Lawful. My characters tend to be well meaning and generous, but I like to think I always keep "the big picture" in mind. I tend to play characters who are good, but perhaps cold and analytical. Most of the time I play spellcasters with ethics modeled on the more or less modeled on the Aes Sedai from Wheel of Time.

 

[Erttheking]

Neutral good most of the time, but chaotic good on occasion. Whatever means I do the right thing. Lawful evil if I'm forced to be evil.

 

[Smiley Face]

It's a tricky issue - I often apply my own reasoning to the situation, but it doesn't fit cleanly into alignment categories - opposition to domineering authority figures, often a pacifist when possible but killing or torturing for the greater good, helping those in danger, extreme kleptomaniac, frequent liar, etc.

I usually just write it down as chaotic neutral, true neutral, or chaotic good, and the DM will shift it back and forth again and again. My particular problem is when classes have alignment requirements - I feel that's unnecessarily limiting.

 

[Blobpie]

I like the play anything that isn't; Lawful good, neutral evil or chaotic evil.

 

[ezaviel]

I play a lot of different characters, all over the alignment scale. But probably my most common is a neutral/good or chaotic/good fighter, so I can be heroic, but don't have to be law abiding.

 

[ezaviel]

Alignment-ignoring Selfish.

I always found it silly to pigeonhole characters into 9 alignments and then blow a casket and punish a player for not slavishly following the alignment to a letter. Real people do not work like this at all.

Actually, most "real people" do act within a fairly consistent band of behaviour. That is why we use personality tests, because personality stays fairly stable over the lifespan (in theory). As we psychologists always say, "the only reliable predictor of someone's future behaviour is their past behaviour." That is how I see alignment, as a description of how the character will usually act, based on past behaviour.

I don't expect a character to always stay within their alignment (unless they have class/roleplay restrictions that demand it). Though if someone just regularly acted outside their alignment, I would change their characters alignment, and leave it at that.

I would describe "Alignment-ignoring Selfish" as Neutral Evil. As selfishness is normally associated with evil, and you sound like you would go with either law or chaos depending on the situation.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Have a wide variety of characters but I often prefer True Neutral.

 

[Innegativeion]

My favorites (to play) are chaotic neutral, as a manipulative bastard,

or

Neutral good, as a well-intentioned hero who doesn't always align his methods with authorities.


I feel like lawful good lends me too much towards a flawless hero archetype, and chaotic evil lends me too more toward randomly separating people from their eyeballs.