Alignment flawed? BR Guilders

[Kenneth Gauck]

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ben
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 7:16 PM
>
> So, If I may ask, do we mean "lawful and unlawful", "collective and
>individual", or "predictable and random"?
>

If we look at some key sentances in the PHB we find (p.46), "Characters who
believe in law maintain that order, organization, and society are important,
indeed vital, forces of the universe." All the elements are there together.
Collective refers to sociey, and predictability is a consequence of
orderliness.

The section on believers in Chaos, organizes the same three elements
together, asserting that they are not important.

When we look at a Chaotic character like Orthien Tane is no doubt engaged in
illegal activities. No doubt he employs a policy of "buyer beware" and
regards concepts like "a just price" to be absurd. Would Tane sell grain he
knew to be moldy? Sure, why not? Worst case scenario, deny you were aware
of the problem. He probably breaks contracts he no longer wants to fulfil.

His weaknesses? His customers have been burned by him both in the terms of
sale and the quality of merchandise. On the other hand business partners
soon come to know they need to be on their gaurd, and understand that Tane
thinks if you get fooled its your own fault.

So why doesn't business go to someone like Siele Ghoried (LG) and the Spider
River Traders? Because Ghoried follows the law, he can't get the same
products at the same prices. When someone like Ghoried finds that his grain
went moldy on him, he takes the loss (moldy grain can be poisonous). That
is an opportunity for Tane to grab another customer. Ghoried consults his
friends and attempts to avoid violating agreements, and considers contracts
to be the whole basis of regular trade. Ghoried probably considers being a
guilder a public trust, no less than a regent does. He looks to his
customers and prides himself on their loyalty to him.

People might prefer to trade with Ghoried, his quality is high and his
approach in business of fair-minded. But, he doesn't deal in certain
products, and his prices, while never gouging, are often higher than Tane's.
In the end they are just as successful as businessmen, but their style is
quite different.

Kenneth Gauck
c558382@earthlink.net

[the Falcon]

> So why doesn't business go to someone like Siele Ghoried (LG) and the Spider
> River Traders? Because Ghoried follows the law, he can't get the same
> products at the same prices. When someone like Ghoried finds that his grain
> went moldy on him, he takes the loss (moldy grain can be poisonous). That
> is an opportunity for Tane to grab another customer. Ghoried consults his
> friends and attempts to avoid violating agreements, and considers contracts
> to be the whole basis of regular trade. Ghoried probably considers being a
> guilder a public trust, no less than a regent does. He looks to his
> customers and prides himself on their loyalty to him.

I don't feel like discussing alignment anymore (it's really getting
kinda boring), but I do have one little question concerning what you just
said: isn't Siele a woman?