Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Character Alignment
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…but were too neutral to ask. My buddy Agent M turned me on to this awesome chart first passed out by This Is 1 Nation (although who actually made it is unknown to me). I’d say it’s pretty perfect, although Indy might be a little Good to be the icon of Lawful Neutral — although admittedly, that alignment was always a sticky wicket, at least in my gaming group. Of course, no matter what alignment my characters started, they always ended up Chaotic Neutral anyways, like the time I got bored with the campaign and decided to kill every NPC I’d ever met. I made a list and everything. I believe that a Deity had to eventually wish me out of existence. It was a hoot!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.