Originally Posted by Apocynum
Originally Posted by LoneSky

Same for the rest, must be made clear if the that law is good, that king is right and so on -- because obeying a bad law doesn't make you lawful, there are just bad words for that, and you can't be good if you are part of that greater evil that is corrupt authority, bad laws and rotten elderly traditions; the source of everything wrong in a society that just follows blindly.


For the question under discussion, I’m pretty sure that the quiz writers are trying to address the law/chaos axis while divorcing it from the good/evil axis (with the exception of the last answer, “do a murder,” which is chaotic evil). Your mileage may vary on how successful they were. It is, after all, an internet multiple-choice personality quiz. Subtle philosophical discussion isn’t a strength of the medium.


Normally I'd agree with this take about the integrity of online quizzes in general, but as this was the official WOTC alignment quiz, I guess I was expecting a bit more depth or nuance. It's hard to argue the results when they quite literally made the rules, even if the quiz wasn't written particularly well.


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