Shattered Kingdoms

That is why I like to use the Robin Hood vs Superman example. Robin Hood=scrupulous and superman=principled. Spawn=Aberrent.

I would also like to put forth that I would argue that ruthlessness is already covered in the pantheon: Sargas. No one can even make a reasonable argument that ruthlessness can be covered in any of the Lightie faiths.

The more fantasy-setting Robin Hood is the subject of analyzation here. The concept of using an illegal or immoral act (stealing and mugging) to benefit the good or needy is more in the lines of scrupulous, especially given the fact that Robin Hood would never feel -bad- about having jumped another guy, and then taken his money. But, I think if Robin Hood screwed up and accidentally killed the guy he was stealing from, even if he were forced to, to survive, he would most definitely feel guilt. That's what makes him scrupulous as opposed to unprincipled. The fact that he would steal to reach his goals (which are good in and of themselves), is what differentiates him from a principled dude.

Ruthless, IMO, shouldn't apply to how a scrupulous person treats the livelihood of others. Robin Hood is "ruthless" in his stealing, but not "ruthless" in his treatment of his victims. At least, in the fantasy setting. He wasn't so great IRL.

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Palladium uses a system where alignments are described in detailed terms with alignments describing how a character acts in a certain situation; whether they will lie, how much force they will use against innocents, how they view the law, and so on. The alignments are organized into three broad categories: Good, Selfish, and Evil. The seven core alignments are Principled (Good), Scrupulous (Good), Unprincipled (Selfish), Anarchist (Selfish), Aberrant (Evil), Miscreant (Evil), and Diabolic (Evil). An eighth alignment, Taoist, was introduced in Mystic China, but has not seen wide use.

Each category contains answers to a set of questions on moral behaviors. For example, given the question "Would you keep a wallet full of cash you found?", most selfish or evil alignments would keep it, while most good alignments would seek to return the wallet to its owner. The categories are not organized into a pattern like Dungeons & Dragons. The system specifically does not include any sort of "neutral" alignment on the grounds that a neutral point of view is antithetical to the sort of active role heroes and villains should play in a story."