Interesting that you're chaotic yet conservative! I would have tested as lawful good in my more conservative days--when I was at the liberal end of the evangelical range, I tested as borderline LG/NG.
I am very much interested in your alignment post! I hate how 4th ed got rid of the symmetry of the old alignment system.
I am still playing 3e as well (and actually managed to buy a "used" but mint condition 3.5e DMG for $20 recently). It just annoys me a little that the current edition sucks.
Really? It depends on your definitions of "conservatism", or perhaps more with how I define myself. I'm fairly conservative fiscally/governmentally...because "liberal" in that respect (modern parlance) is about more government intervention, which is a "Lawful" attitude. Basically, these days, most "conservatives" are lawful on social issues and chaotic on economic/government issues. Whereas liberals are the reverse. And people wonder why alignments are troublesome... :)
Anyway...I'm a libertarian, but I like to think my christianity pushes me into CG territory as opposed to CN.
Re: D&D: It just annoys me a little that the current edition sucks.
You and me both, trust me. It will sadden me that now that D&D is becoming more mainstream (whereas it was always a fairly "niche" and underground hobby when I was growing up), it's changing so radically that a whole generation will grow up without knowing the kind of D&D I used to play. Oh, well...
I think that surprises me because I'm used to your describing yourself as conservative within the context of Christianity, and Christian conservatives (or other moral/social conservatives) are particularly likely to be lawful.
But libertarianism does tend to be more chaotic. I have...issues...with libertarianism and have had some very bad experiences with libertarians, but I have another libertarian friend whom I get along well with (probably partly because she doesn't talk about politics in contexts where I interact with her :P). I'd actually be quite interested in talking with you more privately (maybe via LJ private message, or do you have AIM?) about some of this. (Not for the purpose of bashing your beliefs; for the purpose of me learning from you how libertarianism that doesn't involve being an asshole works :P.)
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Chaotic Good
Alignment:
Lawful Good ----- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)
Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (18)
Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (22)
Lawful Neutral -- XXXXXXXXXXXXX (13)
True Neutral ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (15)
Chaotic Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (19)
Lawful Evil ----- XXXXXXX (7)
Neutral Evil ---- XXXXXXXXX (9)
Chaotic Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXX (13)
Law & Chaos:
Law ----- XXXXX (5)
Neutral - XXXXXXX (7)
Chaos --- XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Good & Evil:
Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Neutral - XXXXXXXX (8)
Evil ---- XX (2)
I had forgotten you were a fellow D&D'er! Interestingly, I just recently wrote a post on alignment, if you're interested. If not, no big.
P.S. why do you miss 3rd? Nobody willing to play it anymore? I still have all my 3E stuff, and have no plans of updating to 4th.
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I am very much interested in your alignment post! I hate how 4th ed got rid of the symmetry of the old alignment system.
I am still playing 3e as well (and actually managed to buy a "used" but mint condition 3.5e DMG for $20 recently). It just annoys me a little that the current edition sucks.
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Really? It depends on your definitions of "conservatism", or perhaps more with how I define myself. I'm fairly conservative fiscally/governmentally...because "liberal" in that respect (modern parlance) is about more government intervention, which is a "Lawful" attitude.
Basically, these days, most "conservatives" are lawful on social issues and chaotic on economic/government issues. Whereas liberals are the reverse.
And people wonder why alignments are troublesome... :)
Anyway...I'm a libertarian, but I like to think my christianity pushes me into CG territory as opposed to CN.
Re: D&D: It just annoys me a little that the current edition sucks.
You and me both, trust me. It will sadden me that now that D&D is becoming more mainstream (whereas it was always a fairly "niche" and underground hobby when I was growing up), it's changing so radically that a whole generation will grow up without knowing the kind of D&D I used to play. Oh, well...
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But libertarianism does tend to be more chaotic. I have...issues...with libertarianism and have had some very bad experiences with libertarians, but I have another libertarian friend whom I get along well with (probably partly because she doesn't talk about politics in contexts where I interact with her :P). I'd actually be quite interested in talking with you more privately (maybe via LJ private message, or do you have AIM?) about some of this. (Not for the purpose of bashing your beliefs; for the purpose of me learning from you how libertarianism that doesn't involve being an asshole works :P.)
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Have you looked into Paizo's Pathfinder RPG? (It's currently based mostly on the 3.5 rules via the Open Gaming License.)
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