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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6379990" data-attributes="member: 2205">You're right; it's not entirely fair.  Part of the problem is that the law/chaos axis of alignment doesn't make any real sense when it comes to people's actual motivation and morality and ethics.  It's a nonsense code that people are trying to interpret in play, but because it's nonsense, they can't really do it properly.  My most successful "evil" campaigns were usually when I specifically told the players that I wasn't using alignment as a mechanic at all, and there wasn't any point in assigning yourself one.  Then I told them that the the theme was pirates, criminals and scoundrels.  Interpreted after the fact into D&D, they'd no doubt have been evil characters.  But we didn't really try to do that, because we didn't care.</blockquote>