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Ronsard101 03-17-08, 11:26 AM	Hello everyone. I'm about to start a new character. A dwarf cleric of a neutral deity. I never played a true neutral character before and would like to take this opportunity to try it. But I'm not sure how should behave a neutral character. The little (very little!) section in the player's handbook does not gives me enough meat around the bone to inspire me... Is there someone around here that has played this aligment and found some fun way to deliver it or have some advice that could help me design my personality? thanks Ron
Vulcanus 03-17-08, 12:46 PM	Hello everyone. I'm about to start a new character. A dwarf cleric of a neutral deity. I never played a true neutral character before and would like to take this opportunity to try it. But I'm not sure how should behave a neutral character. The little (very little!) section in the player's handbook does not gives me enough meat around the bone to inspire me... Is there someone around here that has played this aligment and found some fun way to deliver it or have some advice that could help me design my personality? thanks Ron Well, go with Cleric of Boccob, bent on increasing your magical Prowess through faith in your god. Get in good with your party's wizards, and pray a lot. Only heal the people who do the most to keep you safe, and/or require a fee to be heal them. Take the Magic and Trickery Domains, and have fun.
Drackthor 03-18-08, 12:42 AM	I would not suggest St.Cuthbert, PHB lists him as Neutral, but it's pretty blatantly obvious that he's a Lawful Good deity that just doesn't like things getting in the way of doling out some good ol' Retribution.
JulesCARV 03-18-08, 12:01 PM	Well, I'd say first come up with a specific motivation and personality for your character, linked to whatever god he worships. Don't pay attention to alignment. Then, if you find that whatever you've come up with is too aligned in one way or another (too chaotic, too good, or whatever), then tweak it until you get whatever is right. (e.g., if he seems too good, add some aspects of ruthlessness or intolerance, if he seems too chaotic, give him some special oaths, or whatever)
The_Shaman 03-18-08, 05:58 PM	Is there someone around here that has played this aligment and found some fun way to deliver it or have some advice that could help me design my personality? thanks Ron I consider TN the staple alignment for humans, and interpret it as showing that your character doesn't go close enough to any extreme to count. My favourite description of TN is a quote from Rob Roy - "There are some men who are too evil to bless, yet too good to curse."
Sakon22 03-20-08, 02:12 AM	Fear the law but don't try to undermine it. Don't go out of your way to help others. Likewise, don't go out of your way to HURT others. True Neutral, I think, is the easiest alignment to play. Perhaps too easy and eventually boring.
Terjon of the Blue Rose 03-20-08, 02:25 AM	My personal favorite for True Nuetrals is the the cause-head. If you're sufficiently devoted to an off-the-alignment-scale cause you can easily pull True Nuetral. Just play a character who is willing to do everything morally possible to promote his personal agenda. Be sure to remember to limit yourself to only what truly is morally acceptable and your golden.
Sakon22 03-20-08, 02:34 AM	My personal favorite for True Nuetrals is the the cause-head. If you're sufficiently devoted to an off-the-alignment-scale cause you can easily pull True Nuetral. Just play a character who is willing to do everything morally possible to promote his personal agenda. Be sure to remember to limit yourself to only what truly is morally acceptable and your golden. That would seem to work for a TN cleric. Just be entirely devoted to your religion's causes (though suspicious of the worldly hierarchy to stray from lawful,) and have little regard for the individual. What is the expense of one village in comparison to enacting the will of Boccob (or whomever,)? Why murder or save the innocents if it would delay your divine crusade?
Terjon of the Blue Rose 03-20-08, 03:57 AM	That's pretty much it. You just have to be a little leary of falling over the edge into evil. Sometimes inaction is an evil act and if you choose it in order to propogate your cause you can easily slide into an evil alignment. At the same time you should never be required to go out of your way looking to act in a good fashion so it becomes a question of how far you and your DM choose to stretch alignments. Some DMs still hold to the truism of "all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing" and barely recognize the existance of nuetral alignments. Make sure this won't happen to you by asking the DM before you go this route.