Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-11533671-20140912050918/@comment-11533671-20140913001728

I had the TSR 1st edition ('79) D&D DM's guide by Gary Gygax all the way to 4.5 WotC editions of books and whatnot and know what you're talking about insofar as alignment expansion.

I don't agree with your classifications but we're discussing Peter for now. Characters most always follow their alignment with varying degrees of evil or good dependent on the situations they encounter. The bottom line is that alignment is the baseline for a character's ethics. That is the most fundamental difference and principle when choosing one.

If nothing else, Lawful Evil characters generally want to bring some kind of peace, and Chaotic Evil characters do what they do, either because they're insane or because they enjoy it. Neutral Evil characters at their absolute worst are driven by pure selfishness.

CE ppl are pretty much incapable of forming complicated plans of action since that requires order, something they (by definition) seek to destroy.

Peter was certainly capable of planning and carrying out such plans. Kate even points out that his plans were falling into place even if the pieces didn't move exactly as he wanted.

I could keep doing on and on but the gist is Peter shows more LE traits than any other. He isn't insane like the Joker or Nogitsune (classic CE) and he isn't out ONLY for himself (NE) since he wants power not only for himself but in order to protect what is "his" (Hale family, BH, etc). A CE person wouldn't care one way or another and wouldn't even desire power unless that power led to chaos.