Potion of Balance, Alignment, & The Lawful

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Had a recent character come close to not committing a chaotic act.
Then wanted to train a few stats and decided to drink a Potion of
Balance. "You feel as if trangessing some law." What?!

The reason I bring this up is because the GB states: "In ADOM 1.0.0,
potions of balance may draw alignment towards N=, depending on b/u/c
status - needs further testing". I wasn't aware of this before
quaffing.

If this indeed is a chaotic act, it *should* affect alignment, correct?

 

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> Had a recent character come close to not committing a chaotic act.
> Then wanted to train a few stats and decided to drink a Potion of
> Balance. "You feel as if trangessing some law." What?!
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> The reason I bring this up is because the GB states: "In ADOM 1.0.0,
> potions of balance may draw alignment towards N=, depending on b/u/c
> status - needs further testing". I wasn't aware of this before
> quaffing.
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> If this indeed is a chaotic act, it *should* affect alignment, correct?

Not a chaotic act, per se... more of a neutral act. In game terms,
however, for a lawful it ends up equating to the same thing.

And I'm pretty sure that it did affect your alignment, although perhaps
not enough to change your on-screen alignment rating. Alignment is not
just L+, L, LN and so on. It's a spectrum; there are many shades of
grey that the game doesn't tell you about. If you'd been tracking your
alignment with scrolls of balance, you probably would have found that
you'd lost a few white stones.

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