Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Chaotic Good vs. Lawful Evil


If you’ve played DnD before you’re probably snickering. I’m of course referring to the DnD alignment that characters have within a game or universe, which you can explore further here. These personality attributes are great when trying to craft characters for your own books, regardless of genre.

For instance, my favorite combination is when you face two characters against one another where one is Chaotic Good and the other Lawful Evil. Essentially, a Chaotic Good character is a person that follows their own sense or right and wrong, but is often opposed to society’s law, wheres a Lawful Evil character is the exact opposite, respecting authority to a T, but failing to have an internal sense of morals. One of my favorite examples of this combination comes from the Star wars universe, namely Han Solo and Boba Fett.  

So what personality type are you? A goodie two-shoes Lawful Good or perhaps a Chaotic Neutral free spirit? What types of characters do you like to see in books?

9 comments:

  1. I like that image!
    I'm probably Lawful Neutral.

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  2. I'd like to say I was lawful good, but my cape doesn't seem to be working.

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  3. I've never played DnD and I find this fascinating. I tend to be a law keeper because in my day job, "no good deed goes unpunished". Get lax in keeping the law and someone will sue you.

    But, personally, I also believe in the spirit of the law.

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  4. I cracked up when I first saw that meme. Still am, and too true. :)

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  5. Well, hmmm, life is complicated. Are you asking me to incriminate myself? :P

    Um, I'll take True Neutral and plead the fifth.

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  6. I'm nothing like the Housewives on Bravo TV! At least I hope not... :)

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  7. I am Lawful Good. Though I like Chaotic Neutral a lot ;)

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  8. Lol, great responses:) I always see myself as something of a chaotic good individual, which is probably why I like those type of characters. Also, I am starting to see more the neutral good's point of view as I get older;)

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