Do you allow evil chars?

[Tsyr]

"Needs justify the end" and "no compulsion about butchering people", if you insert "evil" before people in the later case, describes how half the people on this board seem to see the paladin...

 

[abri]

"Needs justify the end" and "no compulsion about butchering people", if you insert "evil" before people in the later case, describes how half the people on this board seem to see the paladin...

Might be why I had so many Ex-paladin in my old campaign (always been very strict about paladin).
To get back to the subject of the thread, I think that evil character are perfectly ok, as long as:
a) They are played intelligently, and not as an excuse to do anything they want.
b) They are interesting.
c) I can find a way to fit them in. On this one, with the number of loyal-psychopath and chaotic-greedy that I see played, they kind of end-up being the diplomat-manipulators, which I gladly welcome.

 

[Bluewolf]

I am surprised that people would actually out rightly ban evil characters. It is in my opinion that a good DM should cater for all the tastes. Although there should be a screening process to eliminate those who simply want to abuse there alignment.

It is probably one of the greatest role playing experiences if you carry out the alignment correctly. Far too many do not see beyond the classic stereotype of evil characters.

Currently I am a lawful evil character in a group where chaotic good dominates. A problem some may think, but I have concealed my alignment with the excuse that it is to prevent others from scrying on me.

Downtime is really where and when the true character shines. However I need to pull aside the DM for a session. Whilst the rest of the group upgrades their equipment, I am off role playing the underlying motives for my character. This means that the group has no idea that my character is evil.

Since I am more of role player the rest of the group believe it’s a time when I can generally acquire more exp. so no suspicion is aroused.

However for this to work you need to have a very flexible DM and a group who don’t role play during down time.

There is always the underlying fact that eventually there will be a clash of interest... But that is when things get interesting...

Remember: Evil is just like cola... there are five different flavours ^-^

 

[Psion]

Who said an evil character has to be a psychopath AND a sociopath?

That's the problem. They don't have to be. But 9 out of 10 players who play evil characters seem to want to play them that way.