Appeal to Inherent Nature: Difference between revisions

{{quote|Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. [[The Farmer and the Viper|She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek.]] As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]], [[Genre Blindness|you knew]] I was a [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|snake]]." }}

* One of the most universally despised yet virtually ubiquitous excuses for bad behavior in role-playing games is "I'm just doing what my character would do" (and its little brother "I'm just acting my [[Character Alignment|alignment]]"). As if once one has written "[[Chaotic Neutral]]" on his character sheet (through no fault of his own, presumably), it would be a sin against role-playing not to do something random, disruptive, and, if possible, [[Chaotic Stupid|stupid]] every now and then. Because that's what Chaotic Neutral people do! And it's not just players - more than one party has been betrayed and attacked by an [[Non-Player Character|NPC]] they were currently in the process of helping simply because the [[Game Master|GM]] noticed its race's alignment was [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|evil]], and why would an evil person pass up an opportunity to do something nasty?