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<blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3265198" data-attributes="member: 10412">I agree. There are gaming groups where I would never consider playing an evil character, and I tend toward Lawful Evil character concepts when I play evil in a group because the evil samurai who still believes in family and order, the mafioso who is willing to bust a guy's kneecaps who doesn't pay his debts but goes home to his wife and children every knight, and the evil but honorable blackguard and other such characters are easier for me to fit into a group than a chaotic evil rapist and thug. (Other people might be able to make the latter work. I cannot.) Neutral evil is selfish and self-motivated. Chaotic evil, in my opinion, tends to require something more powerful to keep it in check by fear and force.One of my longest-running campaigns ever was an evil campaign. We were still running it when Monte Cook's BoVD came out, and we incorporated that material into our game.Even so, there were some elements that we, personally, refused to incorporate into the direct action of the game. At one point, we tortured a paladin of Heironius, but that action took place offstage. We also had to gather the material components for the spell to create Marrowcrushing weapons (I'm not going to describe them here). We left that action offstage, as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="molonel, post: 3265198, member: 10412"] I agree. There are gaming groups where I would never consider playing an evil character, and I tend toward Lawful Evil character concepts when I play evil in a group because the evil samurai who still believes in family and order, the mafioso who is willing to bust a guy's kneecaps who doesn't pay his debts but goes home to his wife and children every knight, and the evil but honorable blackguard and other such characters are easier for me to fit into a group than a chaotic evil rapist and thug. (Other people might be able to make the latter work. I cannot.) Neutral evil is selfish and self-motivated. Chaotic evil, in my opinion, tends to require something more powerful to keep it in check by fear and force. One of my longest-running campaigns ever was an evil campaign. We were still running it when Monte Cook's BoVD came out, and we incorporated that material into our game. Even so, there were some elements that we, personally, refused to incorporate into the direct action of the game. At one point, we tortured a paladin of Heironius, but that action took place offstage. We also had to gather the material components for the spell to create Marrowcrushing weapons (I'm not going to describe them here). We left that action offstage, as well. [/QUOTE]

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