Advice on RP for a LN Saurian Shaman. / Monk.

[prototype00]

Now as some of you might know, I am reasonably knowledgeable in the mechanics reason for playing a LN Druid/Monk.

But in the case of the Saurian Shaman (which I might be playing in a Jade Regent game soon), I am a bit stuck on the RP direction I might take. Other druids seem reasonably ordered and circumspect, but Saurian Shamans?

The avatars of the mountains of flesh?

The sole heritors to a primal legacy of blood and claw that would cow a dire bear?

I'm just finding it hard to fit the Lawful component in, any advice?

prototype00

[Taenia]

I find lawful to be one of those interesting alignments that can be used to describe a number of things.

For druids, I tend to play my LN druids has ones that adhere strictly to what they define as the laws of nature. Relationships like Predator vs. Prey, survival of the fittest, adapt or die, and other situations where this is how nature deals with it, therefore its how I do.

Dealing with other humanoids can become interesting as on one hand they are making a most unnatural environment while on the other they are in many ways the top of the food chain and therefore entitled.

I remember one campaign where a big town had begun a lumber camp in a nearby forest and were being attacked by kobolds. Initially they had no trouble defending the site but shortly there after the kobolds were more dangerous, taking advantage of the terrain and strange things kept happening. It was discovered a Druid had allied with the good kobolds against the evil humans though in fact the alignments were reversed. To the druid the humans were the evil threat, while the kobolds, who lived in a nearby cave network and had little impact on the forest were the good rebels.

In either case its a matter of perspective, and as a LN neutral Saurian Shaman, consider emphasizing the laws of nature, define what they are and stick to them.

[Imbicatus]

Worship Irori. Irori is all about the quest for physical perfection, and from a certain point of view, Dinosaurs are the embodiment of the perfect predator. If you are emulating the natural perfection of the dinosaur, lawful should fit.

Or you could just go with Martial Artist and pick a different alignment, but you will loose out on Monastic Legacy if you do.

[XMorsX]

Also, order in nature comes from the balance between the population of the various species that inhabit an ecosystem. The predators serve as the way to have some species kept from multiplying more than the ecosystem can afford to feed them. It is a way of maintaing balance and avoiding chaos and massive ecological changes.

From this scope, predator dinosaurs have a lawful attitude, as they prederve balance in their natural inhabitant.

(English is not my native language, I hope that my point is clear.)