I’m a narrativist, OP.

My most recently made character for a D&D was a lawful good paladin who followed the cause of “our war is good”, basically.

He believes that his country is the best in the world, and that other countries should aspire to be like his, that war is, in itself, an inherently good thing because it teaches duty and honour and advances the fields of magic. And blah, blah, blah.

And yet, because he is following a lawful cause, and because he believes it to be good, (It does teach ‘good’ lessons, good as defined in D&D), voila, a lawful good paladin who kills people in cold blood and has actually incited rebellion and civil war in countries other than his own in order for those countries to become a monarchy.

(Most recently made character for an RPG: A re-instated french sgreat times sylph ‘movie-star’ for Eclipse Phase. Maxed out moxie and fame rep, 40 savvy, (awesome attribute trait), maxed training in drama, performance, and speech, and aI bought a fleet of UFO cameras to hover around him at all times. Haven’t got a chance to play him yet. Second most recent: a Quarren terrorist in Star Wars saga. He’s a master slicer, and good with mechanics and bombs. Last game, I hacked into a security terminal, in one turn, deleted incriminating records, turned off the security droids, sent off the police, and reprogrammed the spider artillery droid to hunt down the gallery owner and kill him. This was necessary because I had bombed my way into an art gallery in order to steal a artifact from an ancient alien race. (In star wars saga, there is a slicer option that allows you to use 1 swift action to perform three terminal actions instead of 1. You can turn a standard action into a move action, and a move action into a swift action. You get one standard + one move + one swift action each turn = 3 swift actions = 9 terminal actions.)