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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4605574" data-attributes="member: 49613">True enough. Evil characters might even help kill the Evil Overlord (tm). They surely won't spare him out of &quot;professional courtesy&quot;. Evil guys might not risk their necks to help someone else, but they might have personal reasons. Maybe the Evil Overlord killed their family (Evil types can still love their mom, or at least decide to kill you if you mess with her). Or maybe the Evil PC just doesn't like the Evil Overlord's face. An Evil character can have dozens of different reasons why he wants to kill the bad guy... a Good character, by contrast, can have only a few (altruism, justice, etc.).I don't see Good and Evil (the D&amp;D alignments) as &quot;teams&quot;. Evil guys kill each other all the time. That's part of the shtick, actually. Good guys kill each other, too. Look at the Battle of Crecy, for example. Were Edward III or Philip VI, or their knights, particularly evil? I'd tend to put them on the Good side of things. Yet they waged a battle which ended up being very bloody (for the French and their allies, anyway). Good types can have disputes over territory, succession and other matters which lead to warfare.In terms of intra-party rivalry, I can imagine a situation in which an Evil character plays nice with the rest of the group (he likes his friends, but he'd let them die to save himself) while two Good characters are constantly at each other's throats (as good knights, they're both loyal to their kings... who happen to be at war).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 4605574, member: 49613"] True enough. Evil characters might even help kill the Evil Overlord (tm). They surely won't spare him out of "professional courtesy". Evil guys might not risk their necks to help someone else, but they might have personal reasons. Maybe the Evil Overlord killed their family (Evil types can still love their mom, or at least decide to kill you if you mess with her). Or maybe the Evil PC just doesn't like the Evil Overlord's face. An Evil character can have dozens of different reasons why he wants to kill the bad guy... a Good character, by contrast, can have only a few (altruism, justice, etc.). I don't see Good and Evil (the D&D alignments) as "teams". Evil guys kill each other all the time. That's part of the shtick, actually. Good guys kill each other, too. Look at the Battle of Crecy, for example. Were Edward III or Philip VI, or their knights, particularly evil? I'd tend to put them on the Good side of things. Yet they waged a battle which ended up being very bloody (for the French and their allies, anyway). Good types can have disputes over territory, succession and other matters which lead to warfare. In terms of intra-party rivalry, I can imagine a situation in which an Evil character plays nice with the rest of the group (he likes his friends, but he'd let them die to save himself) while two Good characters are constantly at each other's throats (as good knights, they're both loyal to their kings... who happen to be at war). [/QUOTE]

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