What alignment does /v/ choose in RPGS?Reminder Good alignments are literally Reddit and Tumblr
>>321079637
Chaotic neutral for pure self interest.
Lawful Neutral
Nuttin' but law all the way, rulebreakers get out
>let's condense a complex subject that people have been debating for thousands of years into a neat 3x3 grid
>ok but make sure the labels are so vaguely defined that they're completely useless in practice since no one can agree on what they actually mean
d&d alignments, not even once
>>321079637
Lawful Neutral.
You break the law, I break you.
Depends on the setting
High flying Fantasy? Chaotic Good
Mid-Level Fantasy? True Neutral
Grim Darkness of 40k? Lawful Neutral
Evil alignments need not apply, since they always suck.
>>321081335
Do you know of a better alignment system? It's absolutely mandatory to have with the amount of retards running d&d today.
Is Icewind Dale 2 good or is it just a meme
Neutral good. It's the only one that makes even a little sense.
>>321081516
I've never actually thought of it that way.
Lafwul Good or Lawful Neutral on the first playthrought, Chaotic Evil on the second when i want to see how much shit i can tear up
>>321081245
Literally reddit tier shit..
I have a reddit-drone friend that constantly use the expression "chaotic good" "Chaotic neutral" muh game play.
Just pick w/e resonates with yourself and don't be autistic about it on an degenerate anime board..
>>321081670
>Moralfaggotry
>make sense
literal fucking lol
>>321081903
Man.. your friend really sounds like reddit.. but w/e..
>>321081331
This desu senpai
>>321079637
Alignments are retarded.
>>321079637
Depends on the class I'm playing. Typically I'll do:
Good
Tank/Healer
Healer
Archer/Elf
Angelic
Neutral
Human
Nature-Based Class
Thieves
Evil
Rage Classes
Spellcasters
Assassins
Black People
Demonic
I like starting off as Good then comintue down the list. From Good to Neutral to Evil.
>>321082669
>chaotic evil
>God tier
Edgelord detected.
>>321082838
Moralcuck detected.
Find me a moralfag character better than the Joker.
>>321082838
Someone's never done a violent retard run in fallout.
>>321082669
Sup edgemeister.
>>321083125
Sup Reddit.
>if you blackmail this greedy shopkeeper you get double gold for this quest
Hell yeah
EVIL POINTS GAINED
>this asshole wants to surrender after burning down a village
Surrender to my blade, faggot
EVIL POINTS GAINED
>this filthy orphan girl is begging you for food. Do you want to rape her before you slit her throat?
What the fuck man I'm not going to-
GOOD POINTS GAINED
I'm never going to make it as a Sith Lord, am I?
>>321083283
Alignments/karma systems in a nutshell.
>Want to do something evil to this person FOR NO REASON?
>No
>You're an angelic saint my son
>Want to keep this money for yourself so you can fund your world-saving quest?
>Yes
>You're a horrible human being and will burn in hell for all eternity
>>321079637
>playing RPGs where your alignment doesn't shift dynamically based on your actions
What is the "I don't give a fuck" alignment?
>>321079637
Lawful Good, Lawful Evil, and True neutral are top-tier.
Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil are for edgelords.
Everything else is fine.
>>321079637
Usually neutral good or Chaotic Good
In Baldur's Gate I always just picked Lawful Good for that extra reputation point
>>321084125
Your choice of lawful neutral, true neutral, or chaotic neutral depending on how stubborn/dickish you are about it.
>>321083179
I like your style, you tip to no one, just like me.
>>321079637
Light-Neutral.see, i didn't say good, did i
>>321079637
>>321079637
Chaotic Good. My character can be one of the good guys without giving too much of a fuck about laws, social mores and norms.
>>321079637
Lawful good or Chaotic good.
>not starting at True Neutral and letting your actions determine your alignment
>>321079637
Chaotic Neutral is the reddit alignment
>>321079637
Favorite overall is probably LN, though NG and NE are really fun to do as well depending on the game. KOTOR 2 lets you go full NE and it's amazing
>>321082669
>any chaotic not in the shit tier
LMOA
Funnily enough, out of all the various roll20 games I've hopped in, a majority of the "Chaotic" players (Especially for CN and CE) are weeaboos and tumblrites, and Redditors generally try to do LOLSOFUNNY "Neutral" alignments of any of the three.
Therefore, I can prove that Lawful Good is best alignment and the rest are for reddit and tumblr.
![Stannis_Baratheon[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qeILEol.jpg "Stannis_Baratheon[1].jpg")
>>321079637
Has there ever been a decent Lawful Neutral video game protagonist?
Seems like that alignment is only for NPC guards.
>>321089271
House in New Vegas is pretty standard cut LN. Dunno if he's a protagonist but yeah
>>321089271
the lead guy in Inquisitor is pretty clearly LN
LN & CN, fav 'ment.
>>321079637
>Not choosing lawful goodand slowly turn into the craziest motherfucker in town
Greatest feel.
>>321079637
>not role playing as Michael with a Lawful Good alignment with a party of fellow arch angels
shit taste
>>321079637
Chaotic neutral usually makes pretty interesting situations.
>>321079637
Lawful Neutral or Lawful Evil
>>321081528
how about the one where your character acts according to his motivations in a way that makes sense?
>>321079637
aways true-neutral
>>321079637
Usually Lawful Evil and play as a mercenary, if I've been paid then I do the job. Unless they offer me more money.
Or True Neutral when I play a Cleric of Helm.
>>321090326
Look at this weak minded fag.
Paladin for life.
Neutral or neutral good, mostly the latter.
>>321082669
Chaotic good
>>321089271
Judge Dredd
chaotic neutral so I don't have to care
>>321091249
This, I do what I want because I want to do it. The end.
>>321090962
Dark Lord route is the best route.
Too bad there are not too many games with a decent evil route. Normally it's just going full edgelord.
>>321085714
is that scene supposed to be good? the mask audio sounds absoultely disgusting, it just doesn't match the environment at all
>>321091231
Rorschach is probably closer to lawful neutral
he goes by a super strict code that he won't compromise on at any cost, and he's not so interested in improving the life of the common man as he is fucking up evildoers
Neutral Good.
Let me break the law and my word once in a while, but let it be for the sake of good.
>>321091495
There is nothing more about evil than being an edgelord.
Scum.
>>321091249
>>321091440
All of them. No need to deny myself replayability, especially in games where moral choices actually affect gameplay.
>there are people in this thread RIGHT NOW that play non-good alignments
>>321081528
Whenever I dm'd for newbies in dnd I just told them to be who they wanted to be and let the story and their character's personality dictate their responses to stuff. Never applied alignments.
They don't make sense cos you have a different alignment in attitude and action anyway.
>>321091986
Alignments don't matter mechanically after 3.X anyway and even then you can easily patch out the mechanical effects. It's just there for easy shorthand.
>>321092117
There's still a couple spells in 5th that only affect specific alignments.
I don't think 4th had anything, though.
>>321092117
Even so I will never EVER allow my players to be anything else than LG when playing a Paladin.
Like the only rule I will not break for anyting, and I allow all sort of stupid shit.
>>321091657
>>321082908
Batman
>>321092305
You better be talking about 3.X only.
And even then there are paladin variants for every alignment in first-party material.
>>321092395
>>321082908
Fuck son you got REKT.
>>321092537
Nice samefagging
Wrong too
>>321092467
No, in every single game and I have master them all.
You can be a lawful good drow that follow Shelyn, I dont give a fuck. Wanna be a technocrat elf, sure go ahead. Wanna be a siren neutral good necromancer? Cool go for it.
But if you are rolling a Paladin then you bet your ass that you are going to be Lawful Good.
>>321079637
Lawful Neutral or Neutral Evil
>>321092930
You're fucking retarded then. 3.X Paladins, 4e Paladins and 5e Paladins are not the exact same thing and applying the same rules to all three is bonkers.
>>321079637
Proper chaotic evil is most interesting.
Not edgelord or murder hobo, but a guy who is obsessed with 'muh freedom' and will torture a nigga for impeding freedom of people.
See with alignment I always pick one scale to represent mindset and the other, how they go about pursuing their beliefs.
Eg.
Chaotic good (mindset, action) would be all about liberating people and would help people towards being free of laws etc.
Chaotic good (a/m) would do whatever they felt like irrespective of laws in order to help people or kill evil.
That's generally how I do alignment if I really even bother with it.
True Neutral
>>321093106
I do not give a fuck, you are paladin then you are lawful good, dont like it? go play somewhere else.
>>321079637
True Neutral, let the story choices decide my alignment.
>>321090949
>censoring that pussy
>>321079637
Hold up. Hold up. Are you saying, there are people on /v/ right now not chosing lawful good?
Lawful= The choice of the wise man. Gotta obey the law son.
Good= Obviously the best choice. It literally says 'good', what more do you need to know?
Neutral= The imbecile's choice. Pick a fucking side would you please?
Chaotic/Evil= The edgy choice. Teenage 'anarchists' and fedora-wearing edgelords pick this one.
>>321090949
Isn't a Mercenary Neutral Evil though? Lawful Evil is more like the evil mastermind guy that actively plots to fuck shit up.
>>321094050
Not really, a mercenary can turn down jobs he is not confortable with
>>321079637
Chaotic good cause im boring like that
>>321094034
How's the police state serving you?
I pick true neutral and then it sort of slides in one direction or the other as I play the game. But I always wiz out in d&d settings so I don't have a frame of reference about other classes and restricted alignments.
>>321091693
I think up some better motivations or pick more interesting alignment when I actually want to rp. Otherwise I just want to listen to my guts, kill innocent pets when no one is looking because I hate them and not care about the rest of the world in a manner that doesn't lead to the apocalypse, which pretty much sums up chaotic neutral.
If you're sensing some angst in my behavior that's probably because I'm currently 18 and enjoying the best time of my life.
>>321093121
this is pretty wrong
are there any games where being evil actually is mechanically beneficial?
vast majority of games have evil options end you up with more money, but to "compensate" the good option gives you a unique item instead
and then they ensure money at no point is a problem so there's no point to going evil what so ever
Neutral Neutral.
I don't give a fuck about shit, undead king can do whatever the fuck he wants so long as I can keep smithing, farming, whatever the fuck I'm doing. Who gives a shit about the wizard casting bullshit in whateversgrad, I'm fine in nowhereville.
Living the life is the life for me
Chaotic neutral so that I'm still able to help that old lady before I burn her house down because some punk gave me $20
>>321094406
You can have the option to sacrifice people, places, things for stat boosts in some games
The problem with moralfags is that they tend to claim they are Lawful-Good, but forget about compassion, selflessness and overall goodness, while trying to half-assedly justify their actions. Smiting Evil doesn't automatically make you Good.
>>321079637
all of them
>not playing different builds
>>321094646
generally speaking those stat boosts are almost entirely pointless
very few games actually do things like locking an entire power set behind an evil choice (honestly one of the few good things about DA:O)
>>321094797
playing a character purely to smite evil and crush wrongdoers with no pretentions about being good is great fun though
>>321079637
Chaotic Good or Lawful Evil
Though I do play Lawful Good from time to time for smiting fun.
>>321094797
vast majority of actual good characters acknowledge that killing is at best only a part of their job
characters who are "smite first" tend to be 5 minutes away from a slow tragic fall towards evil or seeing the wrong of their ways and redeeming themselves
Catholic Good
Neutral Evil, but do the "right" thing and help everyone out so everyone views me as a good person.
I'm still only doing what benefits me. Acting 'selflessly' doesn't make me a good person.
>>321095112
It is, but that wasn't the point.
What games this?
What the fuck is neutral evil and how is it any different from chaotic evil?
>>321094293
Lawful Good isn't about blindly following the law, it's about having a code or honor or some righteousness shit to follow.
>>321079637
Lawful Evil or Chaotic Good.
If I think it's the right thing to do I'll do it regardless of who says it's not allowed.
And if I'm going to be evil, i'll do it under their fucking noses
>>321095439
"fuck the rules, i'm evil" vs "i follow the evil handbook by evil corp"
Neutral good here seems the most fun
>>321095439
Like the Collabos in WW2, I assume.
>>321091576
Probably because the original audio was so awful so they had to re-record it all, but didn't bother to adjust the levels so Bane sounds like he's narrating whenever he speaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZW5qyc2g6U
>>321095439
You basically do whatever you want to succeed, without any particular inclination towards breaking rules or following them. Think someone like Palpatine
>>321095427
I think it's Icewind Dale
>>321095458
though generally speaking lawful good characters tend to agree that human societies need some form of structure for its people to have the "best" lives
like say if the law in a land is corrupt the lawful good character will at first try to fight it within the system and replace a corrupt government with a good one in contrary to a chaotic good character who's more likely to overthrow the entire system
>>321095458
Sometimes to do something objectively good you have to go against your personal code of honor. Lawful Good character will have a hard time making this decision.
>>321095439
neutral evil tends to be true selfishness with no limits
lawful evil tends to have either lines they won't cross or rules they follow even in their evil while chaotic evil can and often does engage in self-destructive forms of evil or at least forms of evil that do not directly or indirectly benefit them
>>321079637
anime
>Implying evil isn't Reddit
Ayy, Pallys where we at?
I got True Neutral on the test but having read what that entails its like fuck that.
>>321096013
most of the time the lawful good character will not necessarily perceive it as such
they tend to see a form of value and good in the code itself so the choice is less do lawful or do good but rather in their minds is doing minor good now the right thing if it causes greater evil in the future (by breaking their code of honor)
>>321079637
Usually any of the 3 goods or Lawful/Chaotic neutral with the neutrals dipping into evil/good once in a while because because temptation and good moods making them a little benevolent.
>>321079637
IWD2 was the worst Infinity Engine game by a long shot and it doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the RPGs from that era despite looking great and having one of the better soundtracks.
>>321079637
What game?
>>321096353
That's both self-centered and close-minded. Neither is good.
being lawful good seems to me like following a set of rules/organization that basically does the deciding for them. it seems weak willed in comparison to neutral good who take responsibility for a decision they made on their own
>>321081331
You are such a boring little feef.
You see an homeless man on the street asking for a loaf of bread from a baker nearby, who refuses, despite the fact that he's about to throw out the bread anyway.
>LG
>Buy a fresh bread and gives it to the man
>NG
>Give the man a bit of cash to buy the bread himself
>CG
>Kick the baker's face, steal bread and give it to the man
>LN
Do nothing, in accordance to the anti-begging policies of the city
>TN
Don't care
>CN
Steal bread for yourself, don't bother looking to see if the hobo used the confusion to steal one loaf
>LE
Call the police, there's an hobo
>NE
>Steal the guy's cents
>CE
>RAPE
Accurate ? Depending on your cynism move it from one row or two
>>321096659
its not necessarily self-centered and being close-minded in no way prevents you from being a good person
like say, if by breaking an armistice you can save 1 person's life, a chaotic good character would likely not hesitate that much
a lawful good character however might rightfully bring up it could lead to a war that would devastate the lives of thousands
both characters are thinking not about themselves but about others, both want to do good and yet their views are directly opposed
>>321097171
NE might be something like
>give the man bread to make yourself appear good to draw attention away from your drug-dealing activities
>>321081571
It's better than IWD1.
Regardless of their merit, all those discussions prove that D&D alignment system is shit because of it's vagueness.
goddamn i need a d&d game i havent played.. but i've played them all. i'd love to roll me a party right about now
>>321097502
if you've played them all maybe try one of the better mods for some of the D&D games?
>>321079637
Lawful Neutral.
It's as simply as that. I don't care about being an edgelord who wants to manipulate everyone or a saint who tries to get fucked in the ass by everyone.
It's the law and that's all, deal with it.
>>321097425
Fuck no it's not. It's automatically worse than IWD1 by virtue of using 3E rules and it doesn't just use 3E rules, it uses a hackjob version of them that's shittier than the real rules on almost every front.
I roll a Paladin in every game I can. And they usually shoehorn you into being lawful good.
>>321093268
Then you are directly contradicting the DMG for newer versions. 1/10 would not want as DM
Are there any RPG where you can play as evil character?
Almost in every game I have played, everything revolves around helping someone, or solving problems.
>>321097670
That's what Paladins are. If you're not Good, you are just a self-righteous crusader.
>>321097686
PS:T has some very powerful evil options
>>321095439
>Lawful Evil
Corrupt banker
>Neutral Evil
Dick-ass thief
>Chaotic Evil
Absolutely unplayable, breaks the game unless it's an NPC/monster.
>>321097815
actually paladins were the brothers in arms of Charlemagne
>>321097635
>by virtue of using 3E rules
That's your opinion. And assuming they used the same ruleset, 1 would still be the worse game.
>>321097632
Same here. Do whatever the fuck you feel like doing, but at least play by the rules.
>>321097949
We are not talking about real paladins here.
>>321097171
>LG
Buy bread and give it to the guy
>NG
Wait for the guy to throw the bread away, and give it to the guy
>CG
Steal the bread and give it to the guy
>LN
Do nothing.
>TN
Do nothing.
>CN
Steal the bread, don't give it to the guy
>LE
Report the guy
>NE
Steal the bread, sell half of it to the homeless guy for all his begging money, taking advantage of his situation and getting free bread in the process
>CE
Steal the bread, and also steal the beggar's money. Depending on how evil you are, kill them too.
Neutral Good.
Laws and regulations can be bent sometimes.
>>321079637
lawful good
human
paladin
>>321097681
Do I look like I care what this DMG has to say? What are they going to do? Bust my house and stop my games?
Also you are crying about my literally one rule, so I dont want you as my player either.
>>321098154
if they're not real then you can pretty much decide for yourself what they are in your story
fun fact: D&D is not the fantasy dictionary
>>321097632
>It's the law and that's all, deal with it.
Just. Following. Orders.
>>321097934
>Corrupt banker
More like Moff Tarkin. Being corrupt and crooked is hard to keep on the "order, follow the code" aspect often associated with the Lawful part of Lawful Evil.
>>321098457
Are you implying that the Nazi where wrong or something crazy like that?
>>321091657
>Following someone else's rules
>Not making your own
>>321097171
A LN guy could buy the bread, then sell it cheaply to the man. Or make the man owe him money or perform some other, lawful, task for him.
>>321097632
Javert, get out of here, don't you have some criminals to chase down or so?
>>321098289
Hey man, run it however you want. Just saying that you're not behaving very lawful there, unlike your Paladin PCs.
I've actually played my Paladins nothing but LG, but deviating from the norm in my next game in January. Going for LN, nature-style Paladin from 5e, interesting take on it. Hope it plays out differently than a stick-in-the-mud Druid, though.
>>321097632
What a spineless alignment.
>>321098752
you know, for all the shit people give people of playing paladins stereotypical, there's a severe lack of people who realize just how much variety of playstyles druids have
>>321098591
You can be crooked, or even cheat as lawful evil
>>321097610
like what?
>>321079637
Good in Baldur's Gate anyway, fuck the Flaming Fist turning up every time you take a fart out your tent.
>>321099235
if you don't mind evil character the NWN2 mod Path of Evil has about as much content as the official campaign and unlike many other mods actually has quite a bit of player freedom and choice
>>321079637
Anything that allows me to play by my rules. So a chaotic neutral or neutral option usually
>>321090949
Surely that's Lawful Neutral?
True neutral is the patricians alignment. Extremism is the worst thing to be, and that is exactly what good and evil characters are. Chaotic alignments are stupid since you just do whatever the fuck you want for the sake of it, and lawful alignments are stupid because blindly following the law or sticking to a strict moral code is stupid since not everything is black and what.
Lawful Good, always
>Most experience
>Best rewards
>Everyone likes you
>>321079637
Neutral Good and Neutral Evil are the best.
When you're neutral good you can still break the law, kill dozens of people or rob others, so I dont see why you hate it. You just have to do it for a higher cause and not for personal gain. Pretty much human arthas.
>>321099813
This. Why you'd bother taking lawful or chaotic variants is beyond me.
