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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Griffith Dragonlake" data-source="post: 3265237" data-attributes="member: 40379">In my experience as a DM having an all-evil party is fun as a one-shot or short lived campaign. Having one or a small minority of evil characters in a party is not fun at all.  Consistently it ends up in one of two scenarios:  The players of the Non-Evil characters have their characters 'turn a blind eye and a deaf ear' to the evil activities which to me utterly kills the suspension of disbelief. Or the characters end up turning on each other. I've watched two evil characters consipire and succeed in killing the paladin. The paladin player got so upset he quit the campaign.  Frankly I don't blame him at all and blame myself for allowing it. And later when two other players killed the LG monk I quit the campaign. Yes, I the DM quit running the campaign. I couldn't control the immature players in my campaign but what's worse was at that time there were no other players to play with. My choice was GM with players I didn't like or to not GM at all. I chose the latter.Two years later in a different city with a new set of friends I start to GM again. One of my conditions was that Evil PCs would not be allowed. Furthermore, when a PC turns Evil he becomes an NPC. The players accepted that and we had fun. Some years later in a new city with a new party, I laid down the same law and everyone agreed. Fun was had by all. In my most recent game I laid down the no Evil law and the players agreed. However in the course of the game one of the players kept running his CN character in Evil ways. I reminded him that his character would become an NPC once he became evil. But he kept on committing Evil acts and the other players would 'turn a blind eye and a deaf ear' regardless of their character's alignment. I quit the campaign. Life is too short to play with people who don't respect you or the game.Bottom line is that we're all adults here.  We've come together to play a game and have fun. There is an implicit assumption that we can trust each other to play the game by the rules and that the PCs can rely on each other to do their part for the team. There isn't time to roleplay out how a party comes together or even to reject a party member. Either play the game the way we the players like it to be played or go play in another campaign. No hard feelings. To each his own, et cetera.In summary, my recommendation is do not allow Evil PCs unless running a one-shot with an all Evil party.</blockquote>

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