In the forgotten past (which is to say, February), my esteemed colleague Bob wrote an impassioned piece in support of Chaotic Good. He hailed Chaotic Good as the least selfish and most human of the altruistic alignments, contrasted against its imperious and robotic Lawful counterpart.
Now, Lawful Good has something of a reputation. The alignment is infamous for being a killjoy — the law-abiding stick in the mud with delusions of authority trying to impose their rules on a party of (loosely) altruistic brigands. Nobody likes a moral busybody telling them what to do, and most D&D players resent the implicit, self-proclaimed position of the LG character (often a paladin or cleric, but not always) as the voice of Authority, rarely a friend to the adventuring party.
