| #1PennarinApr 05, 2004 2:55:32 | Here's a transcript from the Book of Hallowed Might (Malhavoc Press) on the ranges of intensity that can be found within an alignment.
The thread way back on paladins in DS could have used this. It also helps define, for your own campaigns, the extend to which an individual bends toward an alignment.
For example, the book describes a typical paladin as being L5G5.
Ask yourself: where does Hamanu (Lynn Abbey's) stands? Oronis? Daskinor? Sadira?
...all the moraly ambiguous people in DS.
Good
1 Doesn’t like to see bad things happen to others
2 Helps others occasionally, particularly friends
3 Willing to help strangers on occasion
5 Gives of himself to help others, whether it be time,
money, possessions, or something else
7 Takes concepts like purity, innocence, and other
higher principles very seriously
8 Would sacrifice anything, even his life, for others in
a heartbeat
9 Refuses to harm anything or anyone, even if it
brings misfortune or death on himself
Evil
1 Finds joy in the misfortune of others, but usually
wouldn’t act to hurt others
2 Willing to cause others pain or misfortune to better
himself
3 Actively enjoys lying, stealing, and inflicting pain
on others
4 Willing to cause harm even to friends to get ahead
5 Willing to kill to better himself
7 Will kill for the sheer pleasure of bringing pain and
death to others
9 Hates life, goodness, and light and does everything
in his power to destroy them
Law
1 Generally tries to keep his promises and, when in
doubt, follows the rules
2 Has a set of guidelines he generally lives by
3 Genuinely respects authority figures for their positions
4 Willing to see one person killed or hurt if it helps
large numbers of people
5 Willing to follow a code or a strict set of principles
even if it brings misfortune on himself
8 Would be willing to see many people harmed or
killed if it helped society as a whole
9 Follows a set path in such an orderly manner that it
risks blind self-destruction. Despises and fears
individuality.
Chaos
1 A bit of a nonconformist or free spirit
2 Will lie if it suits him, hates to be ordered around
3 Disorganized but extremely easygoing
5 Rejects the idea of majority rule
6 Would prefer anarchy to any other form of
organization
7 Occasionally destroys things in reckless abandon
9 Hates structure and order so much that destruction
for its own sake becomes desirable
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