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A more serious way to implement the milquetoast/jerk axis might be to phrase it as how likely you are to try to enforce your alignment/worldview/whatever on others, in a Passive/Zealous sort of way. So the tyrant who runs a police state, enforcing order through constant excessive force because it's Better That Way (tm) is Zealously Lawful Evil, and the Druid who believes in cosmic balance as a thing to strive for is Zealously True Neutral. Meanwhile, the hermit who lives atop the mountain and thinks the emperor is ruining the land, but that it's not his place to do anything about it is Passively Chaotic Good. Basically using it as intensity; strapping a moral position onto alignment is sort of destined to look funky since D&D alignment isn't really about morals. Good/Evil and Law/Chaos are cosmic forces in D&D cosmology.
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sticklefifer posted:I quite like intensity of belief being a driving force. Essentially hardcore proselytizing/crusading vs. a live-and-let-live mentality. My only question is how would you represent Neutral on that scale? Ideally, a third axis would have Neutral/Neutral/Neutral right in the middle, so in what ways could someone using this scale differentiate, say, Lawful Good Neutral from Lawful Good Passive? Or True Neutral from Neutral Neutral Passive? I figure Neutral would be baseline Average Joe; you'll bitch at the bar or whatever about how the Man is keeping you down and rules are made to be broken, but you're not about to actually go grab a sword and start a rebellion.
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