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Make your Alignment Rules

Philosophy:
  This simple text will allow you and your players to create new alignments with standards that they want. Perhaps you want to be able to kill an innocent but dislike the harshness of diabolic and you always live by your word. With this text you can have both and not be diabolic or miscreant. Of course the naming of the new alignment is entirely up to you. But play with this and you will begin to enjoy this new form of alignment choosing. Also for those of you curious about your own real life alignment based on Palladiums scale well take this as a little test and you'll see where you lie. I personally fall at 27 points somewhere between unprincipled and anarchist.

Instructions:
  Simply answer all ten questions by picking the letter you want. When you are all done use the point key and add up all the letters. Then use that score to see where the new alignment you created stands in the alignment chart.

Note: Despite Palladiums form of aberrant being between miscreant and diabolic. Aberrant simply isn't that bad. So Aberrant is before miscreant and diabolic in this text.

Point Key:
  A=1 point
  B=2 point
  C=3 point
  D=4 point
  E=5 point
  F=6 point
  G=7 point

Questions:

  1. Do you:
    1. Always Keep your word of honor?
    2. Keep your word of honor to other good people, But not necessarily bad people?
    3. Keep your word of honor & have a high regard for life and freedom?
    4. May or may not keep your word of honor?
    5. Not necessarily keep your word honor to anyone?
    6. Rarely keep your word of honor (You have no honor)?
  2. Do you:
    1. Avoid lying?
    2. Lie only to selfish or evil people?
    3. Lie & cheat if necessary (especially to anarchist or evil people)?
    4. Lie & cheat if you feel it's necessary?
    5. Lie & cheat to anyone; good or evil?
    6. Lie to & cheat those not worthy of your respect?
    7. Lie & cheat to anyone?
  3. Will you:
    1. Never kill or attack unarmed foes?
    2. Not kill unarmed foes (But you will take advantage of one)?
    3. Not likely kill an unarmed foe, but certainly knockout, attack, or beat up one?
    4. Most definitely attack an unarmed foe (because those are the best kind). Yet kill an unarmed foe as readily as he would a potential threat or competitor?
    5. Might or might not kill an unarmed foe?
    6. Most certainly attack & kill an unarmed foe?
  4. Do you:
    1. Never harm innocents?
    2. Never kill innocents (but might harm or kidnap them)?
    3. Use or harm innocents?
    4. Not kill innocents, particularly children (but may harm, kidnap all but children)
    5. Use, hurt and kill an innocent without a second thought or for pleasure?
  5. Do you:
    1. Never torture for any reason?
    2. Never torture for pleasure, but may use muscle to extract information from criminals or evil people?
    3. Not use torture unless absolutely necessary?
    4. Use torture to extract information (Not likely for pleasure)?
    5. Use torture for extracting information & pleasure?
    6. Never torture for pleasure, nor resort to inhumane treatment of prisoners, but torture, although distasteful, is a necessary means of extracting information?
    7. Use torture for pleasure & information?
  6. Will you:
    1. Never kill for pleasure?
    2. Never kill for pleasure (but will always attempt to bring the villain to justice alive no matter how vile he may be)?
    3. Seldom kill for pleasure?
    4. Possibly kill for sheer pleasure?
    5. Kill for sheer pleasure?
  7. Will you:
    1. Always help others?
    2. Help those in need most of the time?
    3. Not likely help someone without some ulterior motive (even if it's only to show-off)?
    4. Feel no compulsion to help without some sort of tangible reward?
    5. Possibly or possibly not help someone in need?
    6. Most likely help someone only to kill or rob them?
  8. Do you:
    1. Work well in a group?
    2. Work with groups, but dislike confining laws and bureaucracy (red tape)?
    3. work with groups, especially if profitable?
    4. Not work well in groups (you are cocky & loudmouthed who is likely to do as you damn well please)?
    5. Work with others if it will help you obtain your personal goals?
    6. Work with others to obtain your goals?
    7. Not work well within groups (consistently disregarding orders to do as you please) & associate mostly with evil people?
  9. Do you:
    1. Respect authority, law, self-discipline and honor. Also Never break the law unless conditions are desperate. (This means no breaking & entry, theft, torture, unprovoked assaults, etc.)?
    2. Attempt to work within the law whenever possible. But tend to bend & occasionally break the law when deemed necessary. Yet distrust authority. (This means you might strong-arm, harass, break & enter, theft & so on.)?
    3. Dislike authority?
    4. Have little respect for self discipline or authority?
    5. Have no deference to laws or authority, but will work within the law if you must?
    6. Respect and honor self-discipline?
    7. Despise honor, authority, & self-discipline?
  10. Will you:
    1. Never betray a friend?
    2. Possibly betray a friend?
    3. Betray a friend if it serves your needs?
    4. Betray friends (after all, you can always find new friends)?

Alignment scale:

Posted By: The Hawthornes

Posted On: Fri, 16 Oct 1998

Your_Alignment.php -- Revised: March 24, 2007.