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Originally posted by Deejax:
Yep. Positive and negative for good and evil sounds a lot better than chaotic and lawful for chaos and law.  But what are good adjectives for chaos and law? Things like "ordered" or "balance" just don't cut it. In some settings the term "entropy" is used. But I really do not like the term. I studied chemistry and entropy was part of a course I failed too often. Maybe some "scientific" phrases could be nice. I don't have very specific ideas yet, but maybe some "endo-" and "exo-" type words (as used in endothermic and exothermic reactions). I'll think about it.
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They use the term "axiomatic" to describe lawful creatures in 3rd edition, and "anarchistic" to describe chaotic creatures. Also, playing with the thesaurus got me the term ataxia to describe disorder/confusion. Entropy is usually associated with negative energy (positive = creative, negative = destructive).
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Originally posted by Deejax:
Druids are true neutral? Or should druids have (at least) one neutral alignment? I think true neutral would be better because then they are really independent of the four philosophies. Do you have an energy plane that goes with the neutral magic?
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Actually, in 3rd edition, druids have to be within one step of true neutral (either true neutral, or chaotic neutral, lawful neutral, neutral good, or neutral evil). This is the same one step rule that applies to clerics (clerics have to be within one step of their deity's alignment), so this fits. Clerics in this system would have to hold the alignment of their philosophy (ex. Clerics of Good would have to be good), but could be anywhere on the map as far as the other part of their alignment.