My "main" is chaotic good, an Imperial spy sent to Skyrim to support the legion and who ends up investigating the dragons. She joined the thieves guild for the fence access and to make some contacts, but is generally moral. She destroyed the dark brotherhood, as they were a step too far, even for influence and power.

My second character is neutral evil, an argonian assassin sent by the hist to undermine the empire. He worked for the stormcloaks, but only for his own reasons, and he did the thieves and dark brotherhood guilds for money and influence without hesitation.

Well, in that case, then I would suggest that he may, in fact, be Chaotic Neutral but not in the sense described in the OP. He sounds a lot like John Cusack's character in Grosse Point Blank. He is an assassin but he is not a bad guy. I would suggest that someone who goes out and kills one day and then does kindly altruistic things the next day is something of a split personality and might be just a little crazy. The 2nd ed. D&D interpretation of CN probably fits the character then. He is not an evil person, per se, but he is certainly pretty crazy.

Also, it doesn't matter how people "see him," the alignment system implies a sense of universal morality where all of ones actions are known and accounted for. At best a character who murders people for coin is insane (CN) or at worst is some variety of evil.

I just do what Mein Führer tells me to do.

Fair enough. I also didn't notice the neutral good description the op posted. So i guess I'm more neutral good I suppose. As for the religion thing. Considering the other option I'd say it's more of a greater good thing.

My first Dunmer skirmisher character was definitely in the Chaotic Good category.

My current Nord warrior is somewhere between Lawful Good and Lawful Neutral. (Depends on how "good" you consider the Stormcloaks to be.)

By your last phrase where does it stay the affirmation "he's lawful withing his organization (even if we admit his organization is outlawed by general rules)"...this was my point.
I admit he may be a little bit crazy but not at all a case of split personality cause he's fully aware of those two aspects all the time always judging if something has anything to do with his organization's goals and absolutely never his good side takes over when on duty (he doesn't go on a rampage unnecessarily) neither the evil side in his free time.

I guess I see where you are going with this. "Lawful," does not necessarily mean that he always abides by the ultimate rules of his society just that he recognizes some kind of order and subscribes to it. He may disagree with the established order on moral grounds (Stormcloaks) or he may be motivated by less than altruistic desires (Dark Brotherhood), but he does not go out of his way to create discord.

For instance, using the DB as an example.

LE - would complete jobs respect his "brothers," and do what he could to advance the organization. If there was a power struggle he would try to gain consensus among the members and advance democratically. He sees his organization's role in the world as necessary which is why he does not oppose it's existence in a society where it is outlawed. If there was a power struggle he would support whoever he had pledged his fealty to though he might not work too hard to save them if he found himself on the losing side.

NE - is purely motivated by his own ends. Power, money, fame, etc. He will do whatever it takes to achieve them. He has no friends in the organization. They just exist as pawns for him to move around on his chess board. If there was a power struggle he would side with whichever faction served his purposes until they no longer served his purposes. He would have no qualms about killing his superiors, servants, etc. as long as it helped him achieve his goals.

CE - is unpredictable and brutal. He enjoys killing for it's own sake and is more of a serial killer the fact that he gets paid to do it is incidental. He would thrive in an environment where there was a power struggle and might just keep on killing until everyone was dead. He would feel no guilt assassinating his superior and would only hold off if his superior was too powerful to get at. He started making plans to kill everyone the moment he joined the organization.

Stormcloaks:
Chaotic good

Empire:
Lawful neutral

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I choose chaotic good, thankyouverymuch.

Chotic good -- or true good (Neutral good).

All of my characters except one is either true good or chaotic good.
The last is true neutral:
Doesn't really give a damn about good or evil, but tends towards good when the choice between the two arise.
She is not an assassin though, because that is evil...

My understanding of the alignment system in D&D was that Law and Order, and Good and Evil were REAL things backed by the powers of gods.

So a Good Character would worship a good god and abide by their rules. An Evil character would worship an Evil god and abide by their rules. There was no black and white in D&D. There was good and evil, and order and chaos. It was OK for a Good character to kill an Evil character.

Obviously, this is different from real life where many good people do not want things like capital punishment.

IRL - morality is complicated with many shades of gray.

D&D - morality is simple

Chaotic Neutral
Or If You Prefer Dark Grey

Lawful Evil.

Valgoroth (Warrior) - Lawful Good

Valen (Mage) - Neutral Evil

Grayclaw (Thief) - Chaotic Evil

Meow is lawful neutral, but close to good.

As a mage or spellsword I'm neutral good. As a rogue or spellthief I'm chaotic neutral. I don't play as a pure warrior because I find it boring. However, I may play as a divine paladin in which case I'm lawful good.

Heterosixual.







wat?

I play lots of alignments, but I'm most comfortable playing lawful good characters.

So far:
Markkas Corinthal, Imperial Paladin of Stendarr - Lawful Good
Nadinyon Oblodra, Dunmer Nightblade - Neutral Evil

Chaotic Evil. My Breton will do almost anything to make himself more powerful. Do quests for the gods? Sure. Do quests for Daedric Lords? Sure. Kill this guy for his stuff? Sure. He doesn't just willy nilly murder random people if it serves no purpose, that's just psychopathic. Also, strangely enough, I couldn't convince myself to kill Paarthnaeux. Why should I kill a loyal contact for no real reason? What have the Blades done for me? I did plenty for them and all I got was "You need to use a shout to kill Alduin", which Paarthnaeux was the only one who helped me learn what that shout was and how to find the Elder Scroll to learn the exact words.

I prefer to use the term "Renegade" though. He does what needs to be done without moral qualms. Sometimes hard choices need to be made to prevent complete destruction of the world.

Since this version allows you to be Neutral without being of Druid ambition I am going to say Neutral.

CG with NG tendencies.

I guess Chaotic Neutral or true Neutral. My Nord does have loyalties and will follow through with them but his loyalties are towards naturally evil groups. He isn't evil himself but then again, Avarius is the leader of the Dark Brotherhood, Thieves Guild, and a Stormblade of the Stormcloaks. With that in mind...Avarius does care for his friends. He refused to kill Paarthurnax out of respect for the Greybeards and because Paarthurnax helped him defeat Alduin.

However, overall, he's loyal towards anybody he's friends with but to his enemies, no mercy.

My thief is CN.

Neutral good.

Ah, somewhere between Chaotic Neutral and Neutral Evil...

Well my character Rashir Nashid, whom I love. Is Chaotic Nuetral.

I wouldn't kind seeing this topic in poll form.