If I were your GM, I would argue that using a Hat of Disguise would almost always violate your Vow of Truth. You're using an item to deliberately deceive people about your identity! Check with your GM beforehand to ensure this doesn't cause a problem.
Put together a list of 5 or so tenets to live by as your personal code, hence Lawful alignment. But all of these are skewed abit towards greedy selfishness, most things are acceptable for the sake of preserving order, so something like "Stealing is wrong, but if someone can't protect their money, they don't deserve it in the first place, so I can totally kill this baron and steal his jewels, because it's not theft, it's survival of the fittest!"
Or, you only loot corpses because stealing is for scavengers too weak to earn their keep through honest means. Granted, you don't much care if they were a corpse before or after you decided you wanted their stuff ;)
My lawful character is a big fan of lists, as they preserve order in their own special way. He also insists on labelling things when he can, having a strict chain of command (even if he's the only one who pays it heed), etc... You could also just look up some stuff on devils and use hell's tenets as your building blocks.
Be a cold-hearted bastard who doesn't sugar coat his words for anyone.
You're a Monk, so be free with your contempt for people who lack your discipline. A Lawful Evil Monk is just about the most elitist character possible. Rub people's faces in it when you beat them:
"Who will they ever find to replace you?"
"Should have eaten fewer pies, fatcakes."
"Pray harder."
"What are you even doing here? What have you done right today?"
And the dismissively shrugged, "S**ts to be you."
Be a cold-hearted bastard who doesn't sugar coat his words for anyone.
You're a Monk, so be free with your contempt for people who lack your discipline. A Lawful Evil Monk is just about the most elitist character possible. Rub people's faces in it when you beat them:
"Who will they ever find to replace you?"
"Should have eaten fewer pies, fatcakes."
"Pray harder."
"What are you even doing here? What have you done right today?"And the dismissively shrugged, "S**ts to be you."
This, but I'd tone down the vulgarity. You're supposed to be the wise one, after all; to adopt the language of an undisciplined bar brute would be unbecoming of one of your stature.
Your tone should be Lawful Good even as everything you say is disgustingly evil.
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i watched an old documentary today, was one of a series about the USAs 5 most hated families. this one in particular pretty much had their own church with a really inflexible view of the world.
seems like a good way to maybe play someone low cha / lawful evil - the matriarch of the family in particular was very quick to talk down to the interviewer like he was a bit slow, or maybe a child... they all believed they were doing the world a favor by 'telling plain unvarnished truth' at least as they saw it - essentially that everyone but them was going to hell.
could tie in well with the points above about laying out a bit of a doctrine or philosophy - the teachings of his monastery perhaps.
So true. I always thought of mob bosses as a good benchmark for Lawful Evil.
does that seem right to you