Snowscoran

Haha no. Even potd is perfectly doable using vanilla Aloth and no other wizard/druid. On hard you can get away with a ton of inefficiency and still finish the game no prob.

Why would Passionate be opposed by Rational, and not Stoic? And why would Clever be opposed to either? First off, keep in mind that these are just names devs used for the dispositions. Sure, there's no good reason- irl- that a stoic couldn't also be very clever. In terms of what it means in ingame dialogue, however, one is being a smartass and the other keeping silent. As for passionate and rational, that really should be clear-cut. One is making decisions based on emotions, the other is more of a cynical, calculating, very utilitarian logic-based decisionmaking. I think you're approaching this in a strange way. The fact that you can act incnsistently doesn't really prove anything. Further, the disposition system isn't made to represent the sort of things you mentioned. Let's say you had an order that favoured cruel/benevolent, with the rationale that they're benevolent only to peasants and cruel to their oppressors. The way the disposition system works, you'd still be improving your order benefits by whipping peasants and giving aid to others instead. The only way to actually model such an order in the current framework would be to make them neither favour or disfavour cruel or benevolent, since the order doesn't take a principled stand in favour of either disposition's general applicability. The disposition system only works for a general approach. If your order advocates helping people in need as a general rule, it probably favours the benevolent disposition. If it's open for harsh treatment of their oppressors, then it probably wouldn't have cruel disfavoured. I did look at both. Everything I said still holds, namely: The fact that you don't like it doesn't make it less true. You don't have to do that, though. The system allows for several nuances. Eothasians are expected to be forthright and never lie (honest favoured, deceptive disfavoured), while shieldbearers are allowed the occasional lie in the line of service, as long as they're generally forthright (honest favoured, deceptive NOT disfavoured). The only faith that's hardcore anti-honesty is Wael, because apparently if you worship mystery you're not really allowed to give a straight answer.

The dispositions seem to be organized into the following opposing pairs: Deceptive - Honest Passionate - Rational Benevolent - Cruel Clever - Stoic Aggressive - Diplomatic If you look at the favoured/disfavoured dispositions of the Paladin orders, you'll see that their preferences mostly conform to this list in that if they favour one disposition, they'll tend to disfavour its opposite. Further, no orders or faiths will simultaneously favour or simultaneously disfavour both sides of an opposing pair. With this in mind, Aggressive/Diplomatic for the Bird Lady's order should probably be avoided.