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My mostly evil/neutral (two LE, two TN) party is held together partially by history, partially by blood (one of the TN fighters is the cousin of the LE Red Wizard), partially by fear (of their mutual enemies and what's *going* to happen, and partly of eachother and how much they all know) and a...

BardsandSages, that's pretty cool. I like situations like that. IMC (Realms), one of the main recurring villains I pitted against the PCs was a *human male* cleric of Lolth. They eventually found out that he was taken in a raid as a baby and raised by a drow wizard on a bet that he could turn...

Oh, you could also throw some guys with Disjunction scrolls at the cleric guy, if he uses a lot of magic items (hehe...).

I'd also suggest throwing other types of challenges at the party. Throw some social challenges or trap/maze/puzzle based stuff at them so they have to think and interact with the game world in non-combat ways that will let the whole group shine in their areas (put in lots of skill checks for...

If I were crazy enough to allow people to play LG paladins in my game (I prefer neutral good or neutral/lawful evil parties to DM for, or just chars on the neutral axes much more, or chaotic for that matter) and put forth this situation, the only "right" thing to do after detecting the orc...

I didn't read the thread to see if anyone has posted it yet, but Fate Points from Spirit of the Century would be cool. I don't know if the Harping Monkey podcast guys were using them correctly, but IMO linking the characters to certain nemeses and giving them points to directly narrate part of...

I've always thought doing a crit fail teleport which took the PCs to an alternate reality would be very cool. Currently my co-DM and I are planning to trap all but the co-DMPC in soul traps for about 200 years while the Realms undergo all kinds of cool changes(well, cool for me, bad for...

It works pretty good in my 2 year running Realms campaign. There's two TN characters (fighters, one started NG), and two LE characters (both started LN). They don't often kill good characters, but the wizards (well, one Red Wizard (just!) and one custom alt. necromancer) are definitely evil...

Bingo (emphasis mine)! This is the core bit of why I think the whole "Babymurderer Paladinson" (Pal20/Epic BabyMurd 5) is kind of crazy when people let their paladin characters detect evil on everything and go around murdering "evil" people and creatures for no good reason.

Well, admittedly, they weren't in the majority of episodes. But there were enough that they would have been Neutral Evil in my book, so that's why I concluded that(because the "bad" guys are held to the standard such that if they had incarcerated multiple innocent people, they'd be evil...

See, you're still going by the assumption that "straight-arrow cops" are Lawful Good. That's absurd. Humans are mostly neutral I'd say and neutral good at BEST. I've watched all of the original L&O and some of the others, and a significant portion of it has to do with them incarcerating...

I'd say the Law and Order people are probably Neutral Evil at best, considering they regularly try to incarcerate innocent people or those that are actually victims. Their primary concerns are getting props for "getting the conviction" and really have nothing to do with upholding law or...

In a Realms campaign I play in, my character's appearance when in full garb is more likely to warrant him attention than his exploits (various slaughter of dragons (one of which was making war on the area), for one thing, as well as a hand in destroying some Velsharoonite liches) or status...

Ah, that part didn't cause the infighting. One of the characters killed a beggar in the port city they entered, and stole a copper off his body. The other characters seemed more pissed about the copper than the killing, IIRC. In any case, they started fighting, and we had to put the whole...

Arr same here. I know a lot of people just play with black and white alignments and the RAW, but I find them lacking in the extreme. It isn't honourable in the slightest to go killing people you don't know (or know the exploits of, evil or good), simply because some magic claims they're evil...

Re-read my post. I said in my own game, they wouldn't have detected evil. Edit: Also, I have a severe problem with paladins being allowed to commit infinity of evil acts (murdering innocents etc.) as long as they "detect evil" beforehand. If the "troll babies" were a different race and were...

As far as I'm concerned, if the creature in question isn't sentient, it can't (by definition) be evil. So, personally I wouldn't have had them register as evil, though killing them for no reason would be. I find the "paladins can be evil (kill babies and innocents as in the above example) as...

I remember the first attempt to start a large campaign that I'd been working on for a couple of years. Everyone made their characters, I prepared, everyone got in game and we started. I was describing their arrival to an integral island by ship. Well, the description basically meandered on...

I would have had them detect neutral for one thing. Baby creatures usually can't make their own decisions, and thus I'd say aren't evil (and as to Frankthedm, are all your NPCs the same alignment, do you always follow the books? I sure don't, so basically every alignment is "Usually XX, unless...

Maybe have them do some solo sessions or group sessions doing various one shots of pre-made characters/NPCs in the game world to give them some backstory (you could set them up as the PCs mentors or something like that, or just set it up in the past so their exploits can be heard of by the PCs).