LN and CN alignments

I was just wondering why there are no lawful neutral and chaotic neutral alignments in LOTJ. Maybe it’s because the whole star wars universe is very black and white, but not having LN and CN still removes two important groups of people imo.

I think you answered your own question. The alignments on LOTJ are very different than any alignments I’m used to.

For instance

Chaotic Evil: Though not the most evil, chaotic evil is the most dangerous. Characters with this alignment will do evil, and are not afraid of any laws while doing it. They usually have no sense of consequence, or very little.
A sith lord could be chaotic evil.

To me, that makes no sense what so ever. One would think a Sith lord would be the embodiment of Evil. Sure, he can hide it at times, but if you asked me who’s the baddest motha in town (Town being sw universe), I’d answer you with sith lords.

Maybe I’m just analyzing the statement too much. Dunno.

I think the sith lords are here as an example of chaotic evil because they would kill you for looking at them the wrong way, not caring for the laws or the people around him as he would kill them too if they tried to stop him, while a neutral evil character would make sure he doesn’t get caught killing you. my point of view that is.

Alignments suck and should be scrapped for everyone except forcers.

Alignments are the most important thing in frp games, when you make a character one of the first things you need to decide is your character’s alignment, because it’ll be the way how your character looks at things. As for the Chaotic and Lawful Neutral alignments, I recall the answer Perennor told me was similar to your statement. Lotj is based around good and evil, hence the limitation.

Those in between people were true neutral as i see it. Something like druids in dnd. I agree with Siradril about them being important because you don’t have to be strictly lawful and evil if you play lawful evil, but it defines your general look on things. Even real people have alignments imho, they are just too complex to determine(but still they could be determined) I also think jedi should be able to detect alignments of anyone, not just forcers(I don’t really know if they can, I’ve never been one).

Here’s a question: Can a character choose an alignment totally polar opposite of his clan’s alignment on the whole?

I imagine there was ‘good’ stormtroopers, who if they weren’t ordered to do so, wouldn’t shoot women and children.

But then does it make him turn evil, when he’s ordered to do so and does as he’s told?

Problem I seem to be having is I chose my character’s alignment out of ooc knowledge that his clan is by and by, evil. But he doesn’t really act that way. Probably a mistake on my part, or I should just start being more of an asshole!

A storm trooper doing evil deeds just because he was ordered to would be a perfect example of a LN character because he doesn’t care whether the deed is good or bad because orders are orders. He could also be any of the evil alignments if he enjoyed what he was doing. A good stormtrooper would probably refuse to follow orders and if he would not be lawful, he could also pretend he killed someone, but actually let them go. A chaotic stormtrooper seems impossible because he should hate following orders. There could of course be other ways, but i think those are the basic ones.

My main argument against CN is rather a simple one.

If we had Chaotic Neutral, very few, if any, average players in the mud would play as characters that weren’t it.

Essentially, it would give players an almost "get-out-of-jail-free" card when dealing with perms.

"Why’d you kill him?" "I felt like it." "ok…" *checks alignment, chaotic neutral* RPC member: darn.