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Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid

Always consider alignment as a tool, not a straitjacket that restricts the character.
— Oft-forgotten sentence from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition Player's Handbook

A character who does things that don't make any sense, just because it's a "good" or "evil" thing to do. It's not that they've lost their goal — they're actually true to their good or evil alignment, but at the cost of every survival mechanism developed by humanity.

This goes way beyond being a Slave To PR or Card Carrying Villain. Nor is any of these characters a Knight Templar. A Knight Templar is not Lawful Stupid, but rather Lawful Neutral or Lawful Evil - with fanatical devotion to the word of law and absolutely no concern for the spirit.

For more on Lawful Stupid and Chaotic Stupid, check out the LJ post by The Ferrett in which he introduced the terms. However, note that his definition of Chaotic Stupid is closer to our usage of Stupid Evil.


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Note: this page is currently undergoing editing to split it into separate pages. Please put new examples on each alignment's page, and not here.

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