Lawful represents order, structure, rigidity, stasis, and predictability.

TraitsEdit

Some traits include:

• Objectivity
• Honesty
• Completing contracts
• Following a code of honor
• Accepting authority
• Adhering to tradition
• Willingly following a routine, protocol, doctrine or instructions
• Willingly accepting and obeying local laws (e.g. carrying identity papers)

More extreme traits include:

• Intolerance
• Prejudice
• Coldness
• Fatalism
• Blind obedience to laws and authorities
• Demanding and enforcing deference from subordinates
• Completing contracts to the letter even when the outcome is not what the other party expected
• Peaching even the slightest offenses to the authorities
• Polarized (black-and-white) thinking

Dwarves, bladelings, devils, modrons, archons, monks, paladins, and law enforcement are archetypal examples of lawful, to various degrees.

Specific alignmentsEdit

• Lawful good
• Lawful neutral
• Lawful evil

Opposing alignmentsEdit

• Chaotic
  • Chaotic good
  • Chaotic neutral
  • Chaotic evil