I've never really liked the D&D alignment system. It's far too dependant on outside circumstances instead of inherent character traits. The exact same character would be Lawful in one universe and Chaotic in another.
Nor am I particularly fond of the connatations of a pretty word like 'Lawful' and a sinister word like 'Chaotic.'
Everyone's going to be evil from someone's perspective... namely mine. /judging you all
As evil as can be managed, but Bioware doesn't do evil well, pragmatic pretty well, but actively malevolent? Not that I have seen. (Open palm and the Sith choices in KOTOR aren't actively evil, just pragmatic and brutal) To do that you would need a thrid option: Save the village, save the keep, crucify every third survivor at the one you didn't help for failure, make the survivors family do it, or they can join them.
1.The smiling titan always makes me want to throw up out of fear.
2. Good and evil are subjective.
As evil as can be managed, but Bioware doesn't do evil well, pragmatic pretty well, but actively malevolent? Not that I have seen. (Open palm and the Sith choices in KOTOR aren't actively evil, just pragmatic and brutal) To do that you would need a thrid option: Save the village, save the keep, crucify every third survivor at the one you didn't help for failure, make the survivors family do it, or they can join them.
Sorry, but there are some truly evil choices in kotor. Like the evil resolution with the droid and obsesed owner and how you end 2 of your allies friendship...Poor Mission...
Oh, I'm gonna be a total Knight Templar. Hardcore lawful evil ftw!
Knight templar villain concepts are always lawfully neutral. What makes them the bad guy is that they always think they are right, even when they are wrong and imposes that they are always right on everyone.
Somewhere between "Good-ish" and "Lawful Hypocrite" - trying to help the common folk by bringing down anything I view as a tyrannical system while trying to form my own orderly regime, all while trying to not feel like a scumbag.
So lawfully good.
Neither. I tend to play characters not D&D morality types. My DA:O characters were deeply flawed people, I woudn't want to be friends with (both of my canon mains had traits I find unacceptable in RL, and I am not talking about the obvious RPG-killed a lot of peope thingy), but they were fun to play as.
My character will be good,but in veangence style.Just to scream"You will never touch a ******* mage again!".
First playthrough is likely to be my 'canon' pro-temp/pro-chant mage who tries to be mostly nice/good but doesn't shy away from doing what is necessary, she takes no pleasure in it but sometime there are no good choices to achieve the correct end.
Then I'll do a few 'pure' runs.... full on goodie two shoes, sassy-pants and mwwhahaha evil. I like to have a full set.
Evil is getting more tempting by the day.
I took this thread in much more simpler terms: Out of the more traditional D&D alignment system, what reflects your RP style and philosophy? This thread is all meant in good fun, so please ease up. By the way, not all us like or enjoy 4th ed's new alignment set up. I respect your views on the subject, but please respect those that are having fun with the topic.
Didn't mean to kill anybody's fun, but I was pointing out why I thought it was good DA did away with alignment.
BTW, I wasn't really expressing an opinion about whether alignment is a good or bad aspect of D & D (any edition), either.
I do think one can make a case that it fits the D & D setting better than the DA setting.
Everybody can carry on - I certainly was not trying to halt the thread. 
As a fan of RPGs (off of electronic devices as well as on), I'm always interested in where things originate. Much of 1/2E's monsters and humanoid races come out of Tolkien. But the whole Law vs. Chaos alignment system (as an alternative axis to Good vs. Evil, which has been in storytelling since, well, forever) really does come from Michael Moorcock, and I'm a fan of his fiction. (As well as the Chaosium Stormbringer RPG, which I used to play.)
(from Wikipedia)
Law and Chaos in Michael Moorcock's fiction inspired the alignment system in Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games[citation needed]. In Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Law, Chaos and Neutral (Balance) are combined with Good, Evil and Neutral to create a total of nine alignments.
Moorcock's conception of Chaos also heavily inspired, and in some cases was lifted verbatim by Games Workshop in the creation of its Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 fictional settings. Notably, however, they only briefly used Moorcock's conceptions of Order or the Balance. The descriptions of Chaos, of the eight-pointed star, of the Chaos Lords, the strange multicolored hues of energies, mutations and warping of matter and flesh, and so forth found in the Warhammer settings are all derived directly from Moorcock's works.
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My first playthrough can almost be embodied by the first quote in my sig.
My second playthrough is basically going to be The Hound from GoT/ASOIAF
You know, I kind of wish Bioware would let you be an "evil" character this time around. If we can have morally corrupt and repugnant individuals leading every other faction in Thedas, why not the Inquisition? I'd like an evil mastermind character option like KOTOR again.
Well since my DA2 PCs were mostly good...
Good, Neutral, and Evil. Good to friends; neutral toward merchants; and full tilt evil on slavers and the like. No matter what I might do to a slaver, I never really feel bad.
I want to be able to truly make a guy that not necessarily looks like these two... but can truly act like these two:
Like I said, not the way they look but the way they act. The pure love of killing/money that Bronn has and the pure unadulterated violence that Sandor embodies.
Oh geez, i hate this stereotypical thinking.
Why has it always to be good, bad or neutral? Why can't you be some sort of anti-hero. Someone that does not kiss everyones ass but still act's for the common good.
A bit like Riddick - i love that charakter.
but still, if i have to chose, i would be a good guy and that's only because the endings for the evil ones sucks most of the time.
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There's really no way to be completely evil though, you're given a few choices that some people might be morally questionable, but you're never really given the freedom to completely go your own way. I mean, you can be like...a saint, or you could be you know, apathetic, but not really downright the Omen evil or anything.
Like, if I'm going to be evil- I want to be this evil.
this gif sums my morality all up
Hahaha, love that show! Anyways I'm probably going to go for a neutral-evil type character or a lawful-evil character 
I'm gonna go with... "Whatever it takes to make the day more lively."
Despite my best attempts, I always end up trying to be the good guy, trying to get all my companions to like me, and generally save as many people as is possible. Sometimes I lean towards neutral if I believe that will avoid conflict, or I'll be an ass if I think it'll lead to a funny response
Generally though, I'm going to try to be as sarcastic as my Hawke was
I have tried to be evil in DA:o, Mass effect and DA2, but I always feel like an a-hole afterwards.
So I belive I will be a "goody goody".
"Can´t we all just get along?"
Well that's all a matter of perspective, isn't it?
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