What's Your Alignment?

Being a fairly new D&D/RPG player, I'm fascinated by alignment. It's not only a good way to create motivations for your RPG character, but I'm finding its also a fun things to things about for a person's overall character, both real and fictional. If you're not familiar, they are as follows (taken from Wikipedia):

Lawful good
A lawful good character typically acts with compassion and always with honor and a sense of duty. Such characters include righteous knights, and paladins.

Neutral good
A neutral good character typically acts altruistically, without regard for or against lawful precepts such as rules or tradition. A neutral good character has no problems with cooperating with lawful officials, but does not feel beholden to them. In the event that doing the right thing requires the bending or breaking of rules, they do not suffer the same inner conflict that a lawful good character would.

Chaotic good
A chaotic good character does what is necessary to bring about change for the better, disdains bureaucratic organizations that get in the way of social improvement, and places a high value on personal freedom, not only for oneself, but for others as well. Chaotic good characters usually intend to do the right thing, but their methods are generally disorganized and often out of sync with the rest of society.

Lawful neutral
A lawful neutral character typically believes strongly in lawful concepts such as honor, order, rules, and tradition, and often follows a personal code. Examples of lawful neutral characters include a soldier who always follows orders, a judge or enforcer that adheres mercilessly to the word of the law, and a disciplined monk.

Neutral
A neutral character (a.k.a. true neutral) is neutral on both axes and tends not to feel strongly towards any alignment, or actively seeks their balance.

Chaotic neutral
A chaotic neutral character is an individualist who follows their own heart and generally shirks rules and traditions. Although chaotic neutral characters promote the ideals of freedom, it is their own freedom that comes first; good and evil come second to their need to be free.

Lawful evil
A lawful evil character sees a well-ordered system as being easier to exploit and shows a combination of desirable and undesirable traits. Examples of this alignment include tyrants, devils, and undiscriminating mercenary types who have a strict code of conduct.

Neutral evil
A neutral evil character is typically selfish and has no qualms about turning on its allies-of-the-moment, and usually makes allies primarily to further their own goals. A neutral evil character has no compunctions about harming others to get what they want, but neither will they go out of their way to cause carnage or mayhem when they see no direct benefit for themselves. Another valid interpretation of neutral evil holds up evil as an ideal, doing evil for evil's sake and trying to spread its influence. Examples of the first type are an assassin who has little regard for formal laws but does not needlessly kill, a henchman who plots behind their superior's back, or a mercenary who switches sides if made a better offer. An example of the second type would be a masked killer who strikes only for the sake of causing fear and distrust in the community.

Chaotic evil
A chaotic evil character tends to have no respect for rules, other people's lives, or anything but their own desires, which are typically selfish and cruel. They set a high value on personal freedom, but do not have much regard for the lives or freedom of other people. Chaotic evil characters do not work well in groups because they resent being given orders and do not usually behave themselves unless there is no alternative.

If you look at my natural reactions to life situations, I would call myself toward chaotic good (with neutral good tendencies as well). I feel this also applies to the way I'm walking my Jedi Path - i strive to do good, but I want to do it my way.

And it made me wonder if people of a particular alignment(s) are drawn towards Jediism. Or if Jediism, by nature, is of a particular alignment. So I ask you, what's YOUR alignment? Do you see Jediism as embodying a particular alignment? Does your natural alignment affect your Path? Or are you hoping that studying Jediism will shift your alignment to a more desirable one?

Inquiring minds (aka. me) want to know!

Lawful Neutral. You?

Wow, evil is a strong word, though good and bad are rather subjective... I'm struggling with the category titles but looking at the explanations I guess Neutral Good.

Adder wrote: Wow, evil is a strong word, though good and bad are rather subjective... I'm struggling with the category titles but looking at the explanations I guess Neutral Good.

These are simplified, archetypal titles, of course. Not meant for the nuances of examined reality

Leah Starspectre wrote: These are simplified, archetypal titles, of course. Not meant for the nuances of examined reality

Which is why when one of my players looks at another and goes "But with his alignment he wouldn't do that!" I just make spirit fingers and whisper "Nuance~" (See also: Lawful Stupid )

I'd probably fall somewhere around neutral good. Maybe with some lawful leanings, in that I'm very much about organizing both my behavior and the behavior of others. "A lawful evil character sees a well-ordered system as being easier to exploit" speaks very much to me.

I love D&D

I am always "Neutral good"

I would be neutral good. Laws of some lands or even establishments might be bad. (So when I 'break a rule', especially at work--where safety comes first, and I'm not necessarily 'on the clock', I'm going to break it--and also pick up trash/other debris.) I won't have the inner conflict.

But in everything I do, I try to stay true to who *I* am.

(Well, even so--I would still be a paladin!)

I would think being Neutral Good to be the best. Willing to cooperate with the law but also willing to break it if need be. I was always a Druid, too.

Neutral good sounds the best to me.

Chaotic neutral