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From: Jim Cooper

>
>How do you portray the Vos society - Lawful, or very chaotic?
>
>I'm having a problem in that, while I can see that the Vos culture
>supports a very chaotic view, aren't they supposed to follow a rigid
>code of honor and such? Wouldn't following this code of honor, then,
>make the Vos lawful? To the outsider, of course, Vos are seen as only
>one tiny step up from goblins and orogs (and this is debatable) - yet
>there is this code thingy. How do all you DMs out there present this?
>I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around this one ...
>

I have found that it is very difficult from the DM's perspective to apply
just one alignment blandly over a whole nation to categorize it. There
are a hundred people out there who have devised other alignment
systems to better remedy this situation, but I try to KISS.

I only use one alignment to describle anything. Lawful, Neutral, Chaotic,
Good, or Evil. I should say "one worded alignments". In my view, the Vos
are very Lawful. They have a strict code of honor and if you violate that
code, you will pay dearly. This is a very lawful response.

A truely chaotic person in the Vos lands would either die or be hunted.
They could not maintain a strict code of Vos honor.

Now this is a very biased and one sided view of things because even
Chaotic Good Rangers have a code of honor.

The largest thing to keep in mind is that all characters are driven by
one axiom of alignment to a larger degree (or perhaps two), but
have a part of them all inside.

I treat alignment like genetics. :)

Hope this helps.

Craig