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Quintessential True Neutral?

Started by RPGPundit, August 02, 2015, 05:03:16 AM

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KrakaJak

#15
August 05, 2015, 01:51:24 PM
As far as I know, he was both selfish as well as incredibly giving. Led a company which built extreme profits on the backs of underprivileged Chinese workers and it created an information based infrastructure that benefitted the whole world. He's given millions to Charity as well as stole a few hundred bucks Wozniak deserved for his work on Breakout.
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RPGPundit

#16
August 07, 2015, 12:21:25 AM
So true neutral is just "split personality"?
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August 07, 2015, 01:43:02 AM
Quote from: IggytheBorg;846131Those strike me as evil motives, generally.  Or maybe vengeance can be lawful, if it involves  a code of honor kind of thing.  Still bound up in ideology, if you ask me.

Don't really think so.

Simple greed of the "go into ancient ruins to look for treasure" doesn't help anyone and doesn't hurt anyone and is about as common a D&D motivation as you can get. Pure neutral that.

Also in sooooooooooooo many PC backgrounds you get "the poopy head orcs clan killed my family, so I want to go kill those poopy-headed orcs." Seen that so many times I'm bored sick of it but I think that's a great TN motivation. Not really evil to want to kill some evil bastards who killed you family but it isn't exactly a shining light of altruism either.

TristramEvans

#18
August 07, 2015, 03:40:45 AM
When I think of true neutrality, I think of that old hick couple sitting on their porch, their only response to the world around them deadpan apathy.

"Henry, looks like them aliens landed again"
"Reckon"
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