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Greetings, My name is TheLosElectrons and I am quite new to the MassiveCraft Community, I came up with an idea to add to the Current MassiveCraft RolePlay Character Template.
For Many who do not know what an alignment, read the rest of this thread please.
Aligments:
If you choose an alignment, you're indicating your character's dedication to a set of moral principles: good, lawful good, evil, or chaotic evil. In a cosmic sense, it's the team you believe in and fight for most strongly. A character's alignment (or lack thereof) describes his or her moral stance:
✦Good: Freedom and kindness.
✦Lawful Good: Civilization and order.
✦Evil: Tyranny and hatred.
✦Chaotic Evil: Entropy and destruction.
✦Unaligned: Having no alignment; not taking a stand.
For the purpose of determining whether an effect functions on a character, someone of lawful good alignment is considered good and someone of chaotic evil alignment is considered evil. Alignments are tied to universal forces bigger than deities or any other allegiance you might have.
The Good Alignment:
If you're a good character, you believe it is right to aid and protect those in need. You're not required to sacrifice yourself to help others or to completely ignore your own needs, but you might be asked to place others' needs above your own . . . in some cases, even if that means putting yourself in harm's way. In many ways, that's the essence of being a heroic adventurer: The people of the town can't defend themselves from the marauding goblins, so you descend into the dungeon—at significant personal risk—to put an end to the goblin raids. You can follow rules and respect authority, but you're keenly aware that power tends to corrupt those who wield it, too often leading them to exploit their power for selfish or evil ends. When that happens, you feel no obligation to follow the law blindly. It's better for authority to rest in the members of a community rather than the hands of any individual or social class. When law becomes exploitation, it crosses into evil territory, and good characters feel compelled to fight it. Good and evil represent fundamentally different viewpoints, cosmically opposed and unable to coexist in peace. Good and lawful good characters, though, get along fine—even if a good character thinks a lawful good companion might be a little too focused on following the law, rather than simply doing the right thing.
The Lawful Good Alignment:
If you're lawful good, you respect the authority of personal codes of conduct, laws, and leaders, and you believe that those codes are the best way of achieving your ideals. Just authority promotes the well-being of its subjects and prevents them from harming one another. Lawful good characters believe just as strongly as good ones do in the value of life, and they put even more emphasis on the need for the powerful to protect the weak and lift up the downtrodden. The exemplars of the lawful good alignment are shining champions of what's right, honorable, and true, risking or even sacrificing their lives to stop the spread of evil in the world. When leaders exploit their authority for personal gain, when laws grant privileged status to some citizens and reduce others to slavery or untouchable status, law has given in to evil and just authority becomes tyranny. You are not only capable of challenging such injustice, but morally bound to do so. However, you would prefer to work within the system to right such problems rather than resorting to more rebellious and lawless methods.
The Evil Alignment:
The Chaotic Evil Alignment:
Unaligned:
If you're unaligned, you don't actively seek to harm others or wish them ill. But you also don't go out of your way to put yourself at risk without some hope for reward. You support law and order when doing so benefits you. You value your own freedom, without worrying too much about protecting the freedom of others. A few unaligned people, and most unaligned deities, aren't undecided about alignment. Rather, they've chosen not to choose, either because they see the benefits of both good and evil or because they see themselves as above the concerns of morality.
Alignments
For Many who do not know what an alignment, read the rest of this thread please.
Aligments:
If you choose an alignment, you're indicating your character's dedication to a set of moral principles: good, lawful good, evil, or chaotic evil. In a cosmic sense, it's the team you believe in and fight for most strongly. A character's alignment (or lack thereof) describes his or her moral stance:
✦Good: Freedom and kindness.
✦Lawful Good: Civilization and order.
✦Evil: Tyranny and hatred.
✦Chaotic Evil: Entropy and destruction.
✦Unaligned: Having no alignment; not taking a stand.
For the purpose of determining whether an effect functions on a character, someone of lawful good alignment is considered good and someone of chaotic evil alignment is considered evil. Alignments are tied to universal forces bigger than deities or any other allegiance you might have.
The Good Alignment:
Protecting the weak from those who would dominate or kill them is just the right thing to do.
If you're a good character, you believe it is right to aid and protect those in need. You're not required to sacrifice yourself to help others or to completely ignore your own needs, but you might be asked to place others' needs above your own . . . in some cases, even if that means putting yourself in harm's way. In many ways, that's the essence of being a heroic adventurer: The people of the town can't defend themselves from the marauding goblins, so you descend into the dungeon—at significant personal risk—to put an end to the goblin raids. You can follow rules and respect authority, but you're keenly aware that power tends to corrupt those who wield it, too often leading them to exploit their power for selfish or evil ends. When that happens, you feel no obligation to follow the law blindly. It's better for authority to rest in the members of a community rather than the hands of any individual or social class. When law becomes exploitation, it crosses into evil territory, and good characters feel compelled to fight it. Good and evil represent fundamentally different viewpoints, cosmically opposed and unable to coexist in peace. Good and lawful good characters, though, get along fine—even if a good character thinks a lawful good companion might be a little too focused on following the law, rather than simply doing the right thing.
The Lawful Good Alignment:
An ordered society protects us from evil.
If you're lawful good, you respect the authority of personal codes of conduct, laws, and leaders, and you believe that those codes are the best way of achieving your ideals. Just authority promotes the well-being of its subjects and prevents them from harming one another. Lawful good characters believe just as strongly as good ones do in the value of life, and they put even more emphasis on the need for the powerful to protect the weak and lift up the downtrodden. The exemplars of the lawful good alignment are shining champions of what's right, honorable, and true, risking or even sacrificing their lives to stop the spread of evil in the world. When leaders exploit their authority for personal gain, when laws grant privileged status to some citizens and reduce others to slavery or untouchable status, law has given in to evil and just authority becomes tyranny. You are not only capable of challenging such injustice, but morally bound to do so. However, you would prefer to work within the system to right such problems rather than resorting to more rebellious and lawless methods.
The Evil Alignment:
It is my right to claim what others possess
Evil characters don't necessarily go out of their wayto hurt people, but they're perfectly willing to takeadvantage of the weakness of others to acquire whatthey want.Evil characters use rules and order to maximizepersonal gain. They don't care whether laws hurt otherpeople. They support institutional structures that givethem power, even if that power comes at the expenseof others' freedom. Slavery and rigid caste structuresare not only acceptable but desirable to evil characters,as long as they are in a position to benefit from them.The Chaotic Evil Alignment:
I don't care what I have to do to get what I want.
Chaotic evil characters have a complete disregard forothers. Each believes he or she is the only being thatmatters and kills, steals, and betrays others to gainpower. Their word is meaningless and their actionsdestructive. Their worldviews can be so warped thatthey destroy anything and anyone that doesn't directlycontribute to their interests. By the standards of good and lawful good people,chaotic evil is as abhorrent as evil, perhaps even moreso. Chaotic evil monsters such as Demons and Orcs areat least as much of a threat to civilization and generalwell-being as evil monsters are. An evil creature anda chaotic evil creature are both opposed to good, butthey don't have much respect for each other either andrarely cooperate toward common goals.Unaligned:
Just let me go about my business.
If you're unaligned, you don't actively seek to harm others or wish them ill. But you also don't go out of your way to put yourself at risk without some hope for reward. You support law and order when doing so benefits you. You value your own freedom, without worrying too much about protecting the freedom of others. A few unaligned people, and most unaligned deities, aren't undecided about alignment. Rather, they've chosen not to choose, either because they see the benefits of both good and evil or because they see themselves as above the concerns of morality.
