Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20160622043612/@comment-26884760-20160623004057

the one problem with simplifying into simply Neutral, Lawful and Chaotic is when you have a Gollum.. he is Chaotic but some would argue he's Neutral..

it is easy to tell the difference between a Lawful and a Chaotic but Neutral makes it tricker.. what makes a Neutral villain different from a Chaotic one?

many high-functioning Chaotic Evil characters seem like Neutral Evil to those who don't quite grasp that Chaotic Evil doesn't mean you're *always* going around being insane and killing everyone.. you just would if it took your fancy or benefited you in some manner.

let's not forget many added Hitler to Lawful simply because he happened to *make* the laws of the land.. he was not Lawful in the slightest.. Hitler was chaos personified (and the same in fiction, he can't ever really be portrayed as lawful as the man himself was not "lawful"..).

being a cop, law-maker or rules doesn't mean you're automatically Lawful.. heck, many corrupt cop characters are chaotic as they just abuse their power for thrills (look up the Victim as an example of this).

while I've stated differences before on Neutral versus Chaotic Evil I'm not sure how simplifying the system will stop people still adding "Neutral" to chaotic characters (or lawful for that matter).