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Every Wednesday I run a Pathfinder campaign with my friends. For the uninitiated, Pathfinder, and other Dungeons and Dragons type RPG systems have a way of judging the personality of a character on two axes: Good to Evil, and Lawful to Chaotic.

A Lawful Good character is kind of your prototypical good guy, who beleives in "doing good" and also obeying the law, whether it's the laws of a nation or a personal code of conduct. A Lawful Evil character would still follow a personal code, or perhaps work from within a lawful system, twisting it to serve his ends at the expense of others. Chaotic Good might be a something of "Robin Hood" type character, who blatantly violates the laws of the land for ultimately noble means, and a Chaotic Evil character doesn't give a flying fu*k about your puppy, he's going to drown it because he can. Of course, there are a lot of varying interpretations of what each alignment can be, but for the most part, I think this spectrum fits the characters as advertised.

On a whim I decided to create this chart with the cast of my book, The Wayward Astronomer. I really like the fact that Hal, as a hero, is true neutral. In all honestly, he doesn't feel obligated to save the world from evil. He would much rather go about his business and leave the rest of that drama to other people, but of course, events conspire to drag him in, all the same. As Marcus famously said, "We often don't have a choice when we discover who we must be"

Artwork of the characters was taken from various samples, all produced by David Lillie

Description
Every Wednesday I run a Pathfinder campaign with my friends. For the uninitiated, Pathfinder, and other Dungeons and Dragons type RPG systems have a way of judging the personality of a character on two axes: Good to Evil, and Lawful to Chaotic.

A Lawful Good character is kind of your prototypical good guy, who beleives in "doing good" and also obeying the law, whether it's the laws of a nation or a personal code of conduct. A Lawful Evil character would still follow a personal code, or perhaps work from within a lawful system, twisting it to serve his ends at the expense of others. Chaotic Good might be a something of "Robin Hood" type character, who blatantly violates the laws of the land for ultimately noble means, and a Chaotic Evil character doesn't give a flying fu*k about your puppy, he's going to drown it because he can. Of course, there are a lot of varying interpretations of what each alignment can be, but for the most part, I think this spectrum fits the characters as advertised.

On a whim I decided to create this chart with the cast of my book, The Wayward Astronomer. I really like the fact that Hal, as a hero, is true neutral. In all honestly, he doesn't feel obligated to save the world from evil. He would much rather go about his business and leave the rest of that drama to other people, but of course, events conspire to drag him in, all the same. As Marcus famously said, "We often don't have a choice when we discover who we must be"

Artwork of the characters was taken from various samples, all produced by David Lillie