[ SECRET POST #3666 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3666 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There's a romantic air to vagabonds, I suppose.

Think of it like the Chaotic Good to your Lawful ... Good? Neutral?

[badbastion]

Maybe not Chaotic Good... perhaps pirates were more along the lines of Chaotic Neutral to Chaotic Evil, and that might be the problem for OP.

[kamino_neko]

Pirate crews really generally tended around the bottom left corner of the alignment chart - N, LN, NE, LE.

On the law-chaos axis: Obviously, being ships at sea, which engaged in combat, they need the same discipline among the crew as other similar ships. Most crews had charters, setting out things like how booty is divided, what punishments are meted out for what misbehaviours, and so forth. How detailed and how well enforced varied from one crew to the next, of course, but it's a situation that can't operate properly without some imposed order, so the furthest right they could go on that axis is N.

On the good-evil axis: They're thieves. Who aren't above murder to get what they want. On the other hand...they're out there primarily for the thievery, not the murder, and the most successful knew that if they spared cooperative targets, word would get around, and it would be easier and safer for them in future, because targets would surrender faster, so crews would be scattered between N and E, depending on the variance within that.