The Dungeon Masters Guild

The Great Alignment Debate

Lawful Neutral

            Lawful Neutral people love structure like nothing else. To them having an ordered system for organizing people, things, and ideas is a thousand more times important than the people, things, and ideas themselves. Lawful Neutral people live highly disciplines lives. They wake at the same time, they sleep at the same times and they perform all of the same activities at the same time in the day. The more predictable and routine their lives are, the happier they are. They are great fun at parties.

            So, why would a Lawful Neutral person join an adventuring party? Order. They passionately believe that if the world would just get all of it’s ducks in a row, everything will be SO much better. They will accompany a party if the goal of it’s mission is to impose Order on a Chaotic situation, organization, or people. They will also join if the money, magic, and power gained in adventuring will aid them in their quest to promote Order.

            Lawful Neutral people will work well in a party, provided that the party can tolerate their inflexibility. Lawful Neutral people will routinely come into conflict with Chaotic people for not toeing the line. And be sure to get the Lawful Neutral person to write the party contracts, not the Lawful Evil guy.

            Vulcans can be good examples of Lawful Neutral people, as well as judges, accountants, and Marines.

 

The basic rules of Lawful Neutral are:

1) Order and Discipline are guiding principles for life.

2) The needs of society trump that of any individual.

3) The head should rule and control the heart.

4) Good and Evil must be balanced to maintain the universal order.

5) Only worry about “Me and Mine”

 

Good and Evil                    Chaos and Order

Chaotic Good    Chaotic Evil    Chaotic Neutral

Lawful Good    Lawful Evil    Lawful Neutral

Neutral Good    Neutral Evil    Neutral