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Monopoman posted...

except for True Neutral which is one of the rarest alignments and hard to play.

True Neutral is arguably the alignment of 95% of the real world population, and it basically boils down to "Everything is situational". It's probably the easiest alignment to play.

It's really only complicated if you're playing the really old-school interpretation where True Neutral is sort of a neurotic upholding of ABSOLUTE BALANCE, but they dropped that interpretation out of the rules years ago for a reason. And it mostly only applied to Druids (which is why Jaheira in Baldur's Gate is True Neutral in spite of the fact that she acts much more Neutral Good).

True Neutral now mostly just means you're willing to bend the rules but aren't rebelliously impulsive, and that you have a tendency towards selfishness but not excessively or sadistically so (ie, you're not advancing yourself at the expense of others at all costs, but also aren't overly self-sacrificing either). You tend to react to every situation differently, based on the given circumstances in a very risk/reward sort of outlook (ie, you're willing to help others if there's little cost for yourself, but won't significantly commit to save others at great cost unless there's a more significant and direct benefit to yourself or those you personally care about as well).

It's the middle point between sinner and saint, between logic and instinct.

It's such a common "default" setting that 4e tried to do away with it entirely and just change the middle alignment to "Unaligned" (which is arguably closer to how the original edition of D&D and Basic D&D handled alignment), but most people kind of hated that so they went back to the old model.
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