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Sengoku Registered user Last page view: 8141 days, 27 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
I'm interested in peoples alignment and style. Would you say it was better to join the dark side or the light side? Or in Adom terms would you prefer to become a Chaos god or a Avatar of Law? (not accounting for difficulty.) Oh and don't forget Balance too, I almost forgot. I'd go for Light! |
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Palagran Registered user Furry Hybrid Last page view: 6572 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
I believe very strongly in Balance. |
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Ade Unregistered user |
I believe in chaos :) That's what we all are - chaos, plain chaos. I wouldn't call it evil, just chaotic. Damn, I'm not sober enough to explain more ;) |
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Palagran Registered user Furry Hybrid Last page view: 6572 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
Haha. |
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Aristotle Registered user Last page view: 8504 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes and 1 second ago. |
In this life we walk a very narrow tightrope between light and dark. However, I'm all for the dark side! Sorry Sengoku :) Be straight with people. |
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Palagran Registered user Furry Hybrid Last page view: 6572 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
Aristotle, I think many chaotics would be a bit less polite than that. *Grin* |
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Aristotle Registered user Last page view: 8504 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes and 1 second ago. |
I know, I think I need a litle more practice! Be straight with people. |
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 Kyp Durron Registered user Last page view: 8541 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
I'd go for balance too Palagran. Being too light sided can entail an annoying judgemental side and lack of acceptance for others. Kyp Durron |
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Aristotle Registered user Last page view: 8504 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes and 1 second ago. |
Sometimes light is dark and dark is light. Be straight with people. |
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Palagran Registered user Furry Hybrid Last page view: 6572 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
Dark is the absence of light. |
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Sengoku Registered user Last page view: 8141 days, 27 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
But darkness would not exist without light as they both define each other through comparsion right? Light needs darkness and darkness needs light. I don't think people nowadays can follow direct alignments though, I mean goths and vampires kind of worship darkness but they're really pleasent and polite people to talk to. Can anyone actually define what light, balance and darkness is all about? I have my beliefs but I'm just wondering what the rest of you think. |
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Caladriel Registered user ReGiStErEd UsEr Last page view: 4908 days, 20 minutes and 16 seconds ago. |
Vampires easy to talk to? I guess so, if you can put up with all the lisping and the pretensious accents. |
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Palagran Registered user Furry Hybrid Last page view: 6572 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
I was referring to physical light, not the alignment. :) |
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NaZgul Registered user Last page view: 7943 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
I always prefered Balance. And twilight.. |
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Sengoku Registered user Last page view: 8141 days, 27 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
Palagran, none of us people are on about light and dark in your sense, I don't think so at least. Caladriel, the ones I've spoken too aren't like that. Nazgul, what do you mean by twilight? Anyone thought of any definitions yet? |
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Palagran Registered user Furry Hybrid Last page view: 6572 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
I know, I know. ^_^ I have some definitions in my mind, but I tend to get long-winded about stuff like that. Maybe it's best to let each person decide for him/herself. |
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NaZgul Registered user Last page view: 7943 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
Twilight are between day and night, between Light and Darkness. |
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Locke Registered user Treasure hunter Last page view: 8109 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
A person can never be true evil or true good. Just thought I'd put some more fuel on this discussion. :) Locke Cole |
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fgn Registered user Last page view: 8283 days, 7 hours, 50 minutes and 30 seconds ago. |
Being chaotic is, in my opinion , very easy. And being lawful is harder. So I prefer being lawful :) "wlazł kotek na płotek spadł na pysk złamał se dwa żebra wypadł mu dysk" |
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Ade Registered user Being perverse is bad Last page view: 7918 days, 1 hour, 22 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
Chaos and law are just artificial concepts... created by minds of human beings, so these concepts cannot be more complicated than our minds. That means that it's impossible to define whether one could be marked as 'chaotic' or 'lawful'. You make my life and times A book of bluesy saturdays |
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fgn Registered user Last page view: 8283 days, 7 hours, 50 minutes and 30 seconds ago. |
mabe that's not true, but when someone is lawful, he does "good" acts, and when someone is chaotic, he does "bad" acts. But that's isn't a good definition, 'coz everyone think different about which acts are good, and which ones are bad. "wlazł kotek na płotek spadł na pysk złamał se dwa żebra wypadł mu dysk" |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 9 days, 4 hours, 13 minutes and 46 seconds ago. |
Lawfull and Chaotic is not the same as Good and Evil. If you are lawfull you simply follow the rules/laws/norms of your society. This is different from society to society. It is quite possible to be (to use an AD&D alignment designation) Chaotic Good, or Lawfull Evil. If you for example steal a car and speed to the hospital to save a wounded person you are doing a Chaotic act, breaking the law. But you do it with good intent. That is a typical example of a Chaotic Good person, do waht you think to be the right thing to do, and to hell with the rules (you may try to smooth things over afterwards, but there and then you don't let the fact that the only means of transportation is locked and the owner is nowhere in sight stop you). On the other hand a lawyer who use loopholes and tecnicalities to get a client he know to be gulty out of jail might be very lawfull (folow the book to the letter so to speak), but doing so is not exactly something most people would consider good. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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fgn Registered user Last page view: 8283 days, 7 hours, 50 minutes and 30 seconds ago. |
I think that's different for every people. Everyone has a different kind of thinking... (I dont' know if you understand me) "wlazł kotek na płotek spadł na pysk złamał se dwa żebra wypadł mu dysk" |
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Locke Registered user Treasure hunter Last page view: 8109 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
We all have a different definitions of evil, neutral and lawful. That's why there's no such thing as true evil, neutral or lawful, IMO. Locke Cole |
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Stas Registered user The Dark Lord Melkor Last page view: 7862 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes and 32 seconds ago. |
our images of E, N and L are changing all the time... "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger" Lord of The Rings "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will anger the cat lord" |
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Dezertir Unregistered user |
Of neutrality. No one mortal can be absolutely *good* or *light* because only God (call Him any name) is the absolute. Also, no one can be absolutely *evil* or *dark* because a contrast of Absolut is literally nothing (not even chaos but void). In the world of Ancardia (see Myth of Creation in ADOM.DE) they said Order and Chaos both are results of dreams/nightmares of Gaethra (f#@$ng Buddhism :-)). So, no principal differences. And see: how Chaos can be absoutely evil if it is creature of Creator's idea? In my humbling opinion, the right alignment is N. You are off extremal sides, you can use positives of both (because all being has positive sides - all is created by God and nothing can be without Him). But you stay free from blind service to white and black banners of *this* world. See: wild beasts are N, and druids - priests of nature. Neutrality is not *gray* but *rainbow*-colored conception! |
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Locke Registered user Treasure hunter Last page view: 8109 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
Well, gray is produced by mixing black and white... And since white contains all colors... *shrugs* I am a lil off topic I 'spose. Just felt like adding a side note that's all. :) Locke Cole |
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Prickle Pear Unregistered user |
Neutrality is both good & evil, I'd go for neutrality don't have to rob banks, but you don't have to save everyone |
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In more D&Dish terms, chaotic good. |
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feilos Unregistered user |
Jan glad you cleared up the asumption of good vs. evil/Chaotic and Lawful thingy... In ADOM you meet plenty of lawful people, as for the chaotics, I find that there is only a sight chance of them being non-hostile. My stand...neutral, cuz you don't last long at the beginning; bashing on farmers and townfolk. |
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