#evil alignment

[randomencounters]

Place: House of Evil, Your One Stop Evil Shop™

[frostsinth]

I call this piece  "We Started at the Bottom and Now... We are STILL at the Fucking Bottom (Possibly Lower), Because None of Us Have Any Social Skills, and We Spend Most of Our Time Fighting."

My campaign playing a lawful evil necromantic firbolg is off to a GREAT start. No one in the group likes each other, and we spend most of our time bickering. The DM admitted to us this week we are still on the material he planned for the first session... We’re on our 4th session. We haven’t finished his original material.

Anyway, Left is Lucien, Ranger Shifter, Then the pink blonde is my boy Bekhisnle, affectionately (aggravatingly) called Bek by his teammates. Tes Inktail is on his back, a little Kobold sorcerer, then on the right is Pearl, a siren (half-siren? can’t remember) artificer.

... We’re not doing well. But we are having fun, and that’s the important part. :D

Also, because of Pearl, THIS COUNTS AS ME PARTICIPATING IN MERMAY! Yay! :DD

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Unholy Spoiler: on the vehicle of any character other than a blackguard, it performs as a +3 unholy spoiler. On the vehicle of a blackguard, it functions as a +7 spoiler of unholy power and grants a +5 profane bonus on the wielder’s saving throws against drag and lift, as well as spells with the good descriptor or spells cast by good characters. If a blackguard’s vehicle smites good with the unholy despoiler, he or she adds twice his or her blackguard level to damage (rather than his or her blackguard level).

(pun on this)

[ronniebox]

nothing grosses me out more than ppl who take contact lenses out with tweezers

[hackmydungeon]

Murder hobo John Whick

For that evil alignment murder hobo party that won’t learn their lesson in how far is too far, have them recklessly mess with the wrong dude who was secretly an epic level ex adventurer who goes on a muderous vengeance rampage to destroy them one by one.

[lawfulgoodness]

Oh, how convenient! I'm making an NE Celestial Warlock, and I'm trying to work on what he's done in his backstory. I'm trying to find the sweet spot where he can't be mistaken for a particularly edgy CN, but isn't so heinous that the average person would want to see him dead rather than redeemed. So far I've got him as a former mugger and drug dealer. How far can I get into the "nasty rotten garbage man" aesthetic before other PCs would be unwilling to work with him?

uuuuugh, okay, but why are all the people I love asking me about Evil characters?  Don’t you know that that’s…. i dunno….. evil……?  :D

I would say, especially if your desire is for a redemption arc, you don’t have to have an evil character, you just have to have a character that used to be evil. You can still make their current alignment “neutral,” or even “good,” but they still have to deal with the weight and guilt and reputation of the things they used to do, and are now trying to atone for those sins.

If they are looking for redemption for those past misdeeds, they aren’t evil.  And if they aren’t looking for redemption, then are you sure the story will unfold in such a way to change their mind?

The issue with being “Evil” is that it means other people won’t want to work with you, except for other evil people, (and maybe a few decidedly evangelistic/optimistic glass-half-full kind of folks). You could possibly move into “nasty rotten garbage man” territory with a character that acts or things like they’re a terrible bad guy, or wants to be a bad guy, but doesn’t actually do anything terrible (think “Dr. Horrible”). But if you’re looking for a redemption story, I’d stick with the terrible awful things being in the past, and now you’re trying to make up for them.

[davidrcastro]

Being an evil character can be a very different role playing experience. Depending on the flavor of evil you decide fits your character best, it can let you explore things that you couldn’t with a good or even neutral morality character.

You don’t have to be a murder hobo or a jerk to play an evil PC. Please click the link, like this post, and reblog this, my most recent article.

[we-are-a-dragon]

Calypso (human sorceress): I know we agreed that just because we’re evil we’re not going to gratuitously kill every NPC we come across, but I really think it would make our lives easier if we just slit their throats now.