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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 6377562" data-attributes="member: 53135">In the last 25 years, I have run two evil campaigns. First was about 20 years ago in 2e and lasted for perhaps 9-10 levels. It was an awesome campaign (according to my players anyway) right up until the end, when it imploded in interparty backstabbing and betrayals. The second campaign finished last year, after running for a couple of years (up to level 15, 2e again).IME, the key to making the second one successful was twofold. 1) The players wanted to play evil, but acknowledged (based on the experiences we made 20 years ago) that interparty fighting and backstabbing needed to be avoided, so that instead of seeking confrontations with each other, because they were evil, they would seek to avoid them, precisely due to them being evil.2) We created ties and reasons to bind the characters together. Set in my own world, they played dark elves (not drows) and evil race of elves living in dark forests, with much of the family structure we know from the drow, but not necessarily as psychopathic-evil as the drow are usually portrayed. The tight family bonds and a father of their family who expressively forbade them to kill each other, as he needed them all to advance their house. This and the campaign, that pretty much pitted their house against the world, went a long way to make things work.Now, I am sure that some who had witnessed our sessions would argue that they played evil poorly and weren't consistent. Maybe. TBH I don't really care. Players got to do evil stuff, make different decisions than the heroes they usually play get to make, and for a year or two, we had lots and lots of fun. And IMO, that's the most important thing.</blockquote>

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