I am getting a bit concerned about @ClockWorkXon missing around here.
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Me too. I hope heās okay.
I did a little digging. He was here on March 31, even though it seems longer thank just 12 days. It looks like he hasnāt posted on Google+ since early February. I pinged him on IM, said we were concerned, but Iām not holding my breath for a reply. Iāll let yāall know if I do hear back.
Iām concerned as well.
Missing people isnāt good! D: Hopefully heāll turn up!
Itās really easy to find extreme D & D alignment examples, but a lot harder to find examples of the middle stuff:
Lawful / Good = Superman
Chaotic / Good = Robin Hood
Chaotic / Evil = The Joker
Lawful / Evil = Donald Trump
True neutral = ?
- Accidentally posted to the wrong thread
Especially when his last post was about bad camping weatherā¦
True neutral = ?
Mother Nature.
Lawful / Evil = Donald Trump (Donald Trump doesnāt have a personal code on conduct he holds to.)
Doctor Doom
Chaotic Neutral = Deadpool (Though heās generally pointing towards good since most of his friends are good.)
Neutral good would be Spiderman
That explains my āhead scratch of the dayā yesterday. 
Orifice 2013 has clean sharp edges and design like I used to use in my WinAmp installations, or like a older version of Firefox.
Windows 7 gives every other window bevelled faux 3d edges and borders. Swapping back and forth between the two is driving me slowly insane.
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Lawful Neutral = Judge Dredd
Neutral Evil could be any number of villains.
And as a side comment, this is what a lot of Roleplayers screw up when they are playing Chaotic neutral. People tend to lean the way their friends do. If you are hanging out with a bunch of chaotic and lawful good people you are going to generally agree with the chaotic good people, not flip a coin and decide youāll do something evil because RANDOM!
You alignment may excuse bad, or good, behavior, but your peer group will punish you for inappropriate group behavior. Any player starts down the āMy Alignment made me do itā path just treat them like Batman did Robin. You alignment may make you think that X is a good idea, but if half the party wants to tie the bad guy up, and the other half wants to strip him naked and set him loose, you arenāt going to get away with slitting his throat. If your character is that kind of douchebag, he deserves censure and whatever comes to him because of it.
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Any player in a D&D game (or one with similar alignment) that uses the excuse, āmy alignment made me do itā is going to get an eye roll.
My personal head-canon for D&D is that alignment is fluid, especially for mortals. Weāre ephemeral creatures, and alignment can change with effort.
However, an occasional lapse shouldnāt be crippling with the possible exception of Paladins and such that have a code. (And note that Paladins had a much stricter ācodeā in earlier editions, which was balanced by the class essentially being a reward/punishment for rolling stats really well.) Professor Evilstein, DDS of Terror, is allowed to have a lapse and save a puppy from being run over by a steamroller. Johnny McAwesomegood might kill that guy who pushed him way too far and threatened that innocent kid in the same way he was threatened as a youth. Evilstein remains evil, Johnny remains goodā¦ Both would have to make a habit to change.
On the other hand, thereās Outsiders. (In D&D, thereās tons of planes of existence including several āheavensā and āhellsā of different flavors/alignments. This is in addition to elemental planes and other oddities, and far different from alternate dimensions.) To me, Outsiders are āalignment elementalsā to a point. Alignment is part of their makeup. Itās a much bigger deal with a Chaotic Evil Tanarāri breaks from itās alignment than the mutable humans, elves, dwarves, etc. The Tanarāri can change, of course, but itās not easy and is a much bigger deal (usually due to magic and such, but more mundane reasons are possible)ā¦
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Here are some musings I made on Paladins oh, so many moons ago.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12583
I suppose in the case of a truely chaotic evil being, how would you know they actually changed? Especially since quite a few of them have supergenious levels of intelligence, thousands of years of life experience, and might have a horrible reason to rescue the cute puppy.
I like how they are represented in OoTS, they have a bit more flexibility than you suggest, but they never grow. Iām this way because itās the way I am, I may occasionally act in ways that donāt totally fit with the template, but they donāt become habits or new was of thinking, they remain aberrations.
Hereās a short article about the FIRST Robotics game for 2016 I ran across at Wired:
Apparently you can buy a 30 ft. trampoline in a 40ft yard, not tie it down, or put weights on the damn thing. Then you can launch it at someone elseās house and claim it as a loss on your insurance. But not pay for the repairs on the house you hit.
So itās possible sheāll have it replaced before I have the house fixed.
Iām struggling to see how your insurance are justifying not paying for it. Surely thatās exactly what insurance is for?
This. So much thisā¦
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Iām sorry, but it appears that he has opted for the āno payā policy. In other words, you pay us, and when something happens, we donāt pay.
Sorry, Monty Python just had to be invoked.
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