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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ptolemy18" data-source="post: 3835643" data-attributes="member: 24970">The answer to both questions is the same: if the other people in the group REALLY wanted me not to play an evil PC, I wouldn't. But this is just out of common courtesy, not out of any innate belief that inter-character conflict is bad.Another aspect of courtesy is: I think on the whole, players and the DM should try to bend around other players' concepts. The game is supposed to be fun for everyone, and this also means that the DM should try to expand the game to make room for people's character types. Basically, I prefer games in which the campaign is built, at least to some extent, around the characters' backstories and goals. Obviously there are some people who prefer to play sort of blank-slate characters and just face whatever the DM throws at them, but I believe the best games are guided as much by the players' preferences as the DM's preferences. If the player says "I am on the run from an evil cult" then the DM should sit down and think about this evil cult (with the player) and figure out how to work it into the plot, and so on. Or if the player says "My character wants to become the King of Thieves" then the DM should try to figure out how the character could become the King of Thieves, while not taking the plot entirely out of the hands of the other characters. And if one of the other characters is a paladin who doesn't want the other character to become the King of Thieves in the long run -- and the two characters want to play this out as a real rivalry/conflict/battle -- that's drama!!Obviously this has to have limits -- if you're playing a game set in a world without psions and somebody wants to play a psion, well, you'd better play a non-psion. And some other game setting might be "no evil characters allowed." But I think within the core rules, there should be the maximum amount of variety allowing the maximum amount of character concepts, including (among other things) games with inter-party conflict and "evil" characters, or games without inter-party conflict. Of course, experienced gamers who want to add this sort of thing will know how to add it, I suppose.</blockquote>

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