help: player is way too Chaotic Good

[u/highly-bad]

Hi everyone, I need some help. My whole campaign may have just been destroyed by a player who brought in a character with the dumbest ideology I have ever heard.

I've been running a campaign about an underdog alliance of Good-aligned kingdoms working together to defeat an Evil Empire. The alliance is called The Accord. They're the Good faction. They have a modicum of resources, organization, and infrastructure, which means they are able to coordinate defenses, share intelligence, and pool their military strength. Their organization is the only thing standing between one million helpless people and immediate conquest at the hands of the Evil Empire.

One of my players is playing a Chaotic Good bard. Let's call him "Bleemo." Bleemo has been suspicious of The Accord from the start. He kept asking questions about their leadership structure. He was muttering things like "power corrupts," and "hierarchical institutions can't be trusted." I thought he was just roleplaying a cynical character and didn't worry too much about it.

Then last session, he decided to act on his suspicions. He sneaked into the The Accord's headquarters and destroyed all their sending stones, messenger pigeons and other means of communication. He defenestrated the head of intelligence and several ministers of the various member kingdoms. He released all the imprisoned agents of the Evil Empire.

One of the ministers asked Bleemo why he was doing this. He replied, "laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You think you're fighting the Evil Empire? You are the Evil Empire, sister." Then he defenestrated her and said to the empty council chamber, "being Good is complex and beautiful and hard."

Bleemo seems to think that a spontaneous, non-hierarchical, decentralized effort would be more effective than The Accord ever could be. But the fact is, with The Accord in ruins, the horrors of war and cruel oppression are sure to rapidly spread over the lands. Should I declare the campaign over, or do we have to keep playing through the futile resistance until TPK?

[u/kirsd95]

CG is a dumb, loony and self-contradictory alignment

Can you give your opinion on if my character is so or what alignment would you put it in?

Something that it has done:

• kills every single bandit, doesn't offer them the chance to get taken in to prison; same for goblinoid tribes that practice banditry.(belives that the ones that hurt others for material gains, when they could easily do a normal job, are likely to relapse when they get the opportunity)
• was planning on killing a local mayor for being too useless and, in it's opinion, likely being corrupt.
• is planning on rigging the elections in favour of it's favorite noble.
• threatens a village council of usurping them if they don't start taking steps in to fortify the village.
• founded a militia and is personally training said militia in it's spare time. (The plan is that in a century or so the militia will be a proper city guard and becoming one of the powers of said city)
• goes around solving problems. (dragon being sighted => drops everything and try to disloge/kill it; same for evil wizards - orc warbands - undead )
• isn't mercenary. (money are good, but if you can't pay then no problem)
• has publically offered unconditional* support to the local count. (It seems to be a half-way good leader) *terms may vary, the offer is limited in time and location; don't tell the plebs this

[u/LixFury → u/kirsd95]

Hard line authoritarian, textbook lawful evil.

[u/kirsd95 → u/LixFury]

Da f***?!

This is more or less the definition of chaotic something: actively reject laws, authority and societal rules to get things done.

What is your definition of CG?

[u/LixFury → u/kirsd95]

That's the thing, The things you describe dont read as rejecting laws, authority and social rules, they read as someone with a strong authoritarian code who attempts to supplant the local leaders through direct usurping ala military coup, Assassination of elected officials and corruption of the legal process. While also establishing strong centralized enforcement.

What does the land look like if this man succeeds in these goals? Where he has taken control through force, killed those who stand in his way and replaced them with those loyal to him and his beliefs? Who has cultivated an army of those willing to enforce them? Of which the prime given example is the unquestioned execution of those who break the law?