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

[tealterror0.livejournal.com]

Of course Abraham believes he's right. Pretty much everyone believes they're right. (Even John Manuelito!) I'm not saying he doesn't have a point, I'm saying that he's blinded by his own biases and history, too obsessed with revenge to think clearly about how his (stated) goals might best be achieved. A complex figure, yes, but definitely firmly in the "Evil" portion of D&D's limited alignment system.

Italy was an enemy nation filled with actual soldiers; the Tirpitz was a battleship. We are talking about the deaths of civilians here, so your analogy does not hold. There is, of course, a good chance sealing the Lands Below was the most efficient way to deal a huge blow to the Confederation, but even at this early stage I have a hard time believing it was "necessary," even if I thought violent revolution was the only way to bring down the Deathly Regiment (which again, I don't).