The Most Annoying D&D Alignment Stereotype

[forsythferret]

Even moreso than the tightass paladin, the stereotypical character type that pisses me off in D&D? The "Chaotic Neutral" person who uses it as an excuse to be all "WHEE I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT WITHOUT CARING." Or the people who think Chaotic Neutral = Psychopath. And the worse part is how so many of the official D&D books give that exact kind

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[forsythferret]

And that's why it irritates me. Fors is pretty much chaotic neutral, for example. Oh well, this is why all our games have pretty much just totally ignored alignment as such for quite a while anyway.

[megpie71]

Agreed. Yes, a chaotic neutral character *can* come across as insane (particularly if they play it up, which some of them will, simply for the yuks). But the easiest way of playing a chaotic neutral character is just to remember that they will answer any "But..." with "So?" They'll also tend toward the selfish and the self-centred - after all, if law doesn't matter, and neither does morality, what guides them aside from a sense of what would be best for them.

So, if you have a CN player in your party, the trick to getting them to go along with you is to know what they want, and point out how your party can make that possible - or at least, easier than it would be on their own.