Alexandra Quick is a 6th-level Magic-User/Thief

[inverarity]

Springing off of a comment on an earlier post, I had this extremely nerdy idea a while ago, so why not?



Way back in the day, I played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, yes, it's true. I even had the original blue box basic D&D set.

By high school I had left AD&D behind and have never really looked back (for many years I was more of a Champions and GURPS grognard), but let's face it, everyone who has ever played a roleplaying game, even if they sniff disdainfully at AD&D, is familiar with the tropes pioneered by that game.

So, for anyone nerdy enough to be familiar with them, here's an AD&D alignment poll for my AQ characters. (Here is a summary of alignments if you need a refresher/guide.)

We're going by the original AD&D alignment chart.



Blink Dogs. Seriously.

Or if you prefer one of a bajillion images online mapping various fictional characters to alignments:



It took me a while to find one I agreed with. Also, The Wire is fucking awesome.

So, without entering into an extensive debate on the validity/utility of AD&D alignments (I had those debates so many times in high school...), consider this "just for fun."

I will let the poll run for a while, and then eventually post my own Absolutely Correct and Inarguable Word of God interpretations. :P

I'm not including all the minor characters because it's a pain — LJ requires I manually enter the fields for every single character. But feel free to speculate in the comments if you like.



[Poll #1942893]

Comments

Re: Law vs. Chaos

[graeme sutton (from livejournal.com)]

I never said Lenin was chaotic, I agree that he was Lawful Evil the whole way, though I think you greatly underestimate the amount of violence the bolsheviks engaged in.

Thorn and everyone else who know about the Deathly Regiment are under unbreakable vows never to reveal it so it is not possible to spread the word about it, which would make it difficult to organize civil disobedience around it. Either way it's a moot point because Law and Chaos have nothing to do with whether or not someone believes in non-violence. Alexandra is clearly Chaotic and much more averse to violence than the clearly-lawful Diana Grimm.

Re: Law vs. Chaos

[shinygobonkers.livejournal.com]

I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on our definitions of lawful/chaotic. alignment is, in any case, apparently a highly subjective thing on the whole, so.

interesting to read the variety of takes on it in any case.