My tension in playing (and understanding) the chaotic ethos is that it seems to have two different definitions:

1. Not thinking ahead and planning stuff out; being spontaneous.

2. Not being bound by society's "rules", including laws.

I can imagine a character who is not bound by society's rules but that plans things out and is not very spontaneous.

I can imagine a character who doesn't plan things out and is very spontaneous but nevertheless rarely veers outside society's rules/laws.


For this reason I rarely play chaotic characters. (I have similar trouble playing neutral alignment.)