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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6845951" data-attributes="member: 18333">When I was in high school (a long time ago), I played in an evil campaign.  We kept it going for 2 or 3 years and had a great time.  Somehow, we all feared each other in the party just enough so that we didn't do anything to disrupt the group too badly.  Also, the DM made sure that most of the campaign, we were thrust into situations where we were still trying to survive in a dog-eat-dog world against other even more powerful evils than our own pitiful PCs.  We spent a lot of time meeting very powerful evil entities that we would either serve or try to outwit/avoid.  We had the opportunity to think differently and try on the neutral, lawful and even some chaotic evil, but for the most part, we never actually turned the campaign into an attempt to battle the forces of good in the world.  I think that is a huge key to keeping an evil party going.  Really, once the party turns against the forces of good and acts too blatantly against established authority and goodness in a fantasy world, the party has no true safe haven unless they are protected by some higher level/godlike evil entity - but sometimes that feels too much like DM intervention to save the PCs from the consequences they engender.Unfortunately, toward the end of our campaign, we had worn thin the bond that kept our PCs together, and then we started to plot and fight within the party.  The party ended when each party member chose 1 of 2 sides and then we had a showdown.  To tell the truth, I can't even remember how it all ended, but once we started to fight faction vs. faction, the game was not as fun.  We all think that this happened because we were wrestling with teen angst and interpersonal tension between players/DM.  So, like others have said, try to create really plausible bonds between the PCs and make sure they know that being evil can be really dangerous because if you are openly too evil, you will be fighting both the forces of good and the forces of evil.  It is best to play the game of politics and seem more law abiding and conduct most of the evil surreptitiously and selectively.  (House of Cards or Thieves' World/Sanctuary style).</blockquote>

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