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I can see your point in the motivations, but I can still see that your example of killing a few innocents to save a greater number is something that actually comes up as a "for the greater good," example and I would - personally - never apply this to an evil character or the evil alignment in...

I'd also like to throw out this thread here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/241440-stalker0s-obsidian-skill-challenge-system-new-version-1-2-a.html It is an alternative way of doing skill challenges if you don't like the way they are handled in the DMGs.

I'll definitely agree to having a prior discussion with the group as DM is an absolute must especially if you are running an evil-themed campaign. I've gone as far as requiring that all the players give me a detailed background on their PCs because you can't just have all of them do the cliche...

@Filcher 's XP Comment: Guess it depends on if they use detect evil on him or not....

While I can see the merit in your opinion on the subject, I just have to disagree that a good party is as vulnerable as an evil party to in-fighting. I feel that a good party -most of the time- are out for the "greater good" and look out for each other because they genuinely care about each...

The Crimson Roses The Scarlet Blades

Depends on whose homes the characters are invading and why they are killing them and taking their stuff. To say something like that could be good or evil depending on the situation. I know you meant it as a joke, but still if a bunch of good characters enter the home of a goodly lord just to...

Interesting results so far, seems like most people have answered that they generally don't like or even hate the concept of an evil campaign and it generally stems from the "me first" mentality of the PCs. A few follow-up questions to the community, if you do enjoy running/playing in evil...

I guess my only, what I call a successful evil campaign was a solo campaign with a player who played two PC's and it was a lot of fun. The PCs he played were a Necromancer and a Barbarian so no threat of an intra-party TPK because he played them both! I just generally find that when you have a...

So I've realized that I start a lot of polls, but I think this one might be pretty interesting to see how people feel about the subject of evil campaigns. I've ran a few in my decade + of DM'ing and actually find them harder to DM for a variety of reasons. I personally like the good vs evil and...

Totally agree with Jester here. I've run a campaign from 1-30 in 4E and I totally agree that there just needs to be more support of the epic levels. For the final boss/encounter in my campaign I had to seek out the help of the community because I couldn't find anything suitable to mold or reskin...

Don't get me wrong, a climatic scene like that is just as much fun for me and a lot of other people as is an extended universe that has multiple BBEGs or evil organizations that you are trying to thwart.

This is a great post by WD. Power vacuums happen all the time, when one BBEG or organization goes belly-up there are always other that are frothing at the mouth to take over and fill that spot. Even if you have a singular BBEG, you can still have that one get taken out by the PCs only to be...

I think this has to do with the DM not shining the spotlight on the PCs or the PCs not taking the initiative to shine by trying to do things that are cool, outside the box, or out cinematic. I've DM'd quite a few 4E games and each and every character can "shine." Tanks - Shining by doing...

I've done both in my gaming campaigns. It comes down to how you present it I think. The way I did it for the singular BBEG was to have him being a shadowy force for most of the campaign as he sent waves of his minions, soldiers, and lieutenants at the PCs until they finally discovered who/what...

What is a spelljammer? Some kind of cheese?

Hah bringing a sword to a gunfight?

A point to stress here: If you are say at -5hps or -10 hps and someone heals you for +20 hps, you start at 0 hps, not the -5hps or -10hps, so you would be at 20 hit points not 10 or 15. Healing always starts from 0 no matter how far down you are (as long as you haven't died yet). PSI has it...

Okay I'll try to keep this pretty simple: Everyone gets 1 healing surge per combat, which is called "second wind." If you are healed it usually uses a healing surge + modifier (i.e. cleric rolls a d6 added to your healing surge value) Some powers allow you to recover healing surges, some...

I guess it comes down to what constitutes scariness in game. Wary isn't scared and we know that, but I guess that a PC can't truly be scared - in character - unless they really do fear for their lives or come up against something they have some type of phobia for. For example my current...