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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 4498393" data-attributes="member: 14197">In my experience, explaining why a social contract is needed is not very difficult.  You simply explain the reasons and move on.  If we are talking about adults, then this is easy.  If we are talking about adolescents, then they're sociopathic behavior may just be one of immaturity, and then all your lessons won't matter anyway.Good PCs generally hunt evil, seek it out and squash their plans.  Good NPCs would do the same.  More so (in my experience gaming) than Evil hunts out good.  Evil NPCs generally scheme, and if a Good PC gets in the way, then they will seek them out to eradicate them, but generally, the Good hunts the Evil.  Evil MOBS may attack good, like orc armies or goblin tribes or whatever, but the BBEG behind the scene generally waits.  Note, I didn't say they ALWAYS wait, just generally.Look, I said that I don't want to waste 12-18 months of my precious and infrequent gaming time, as a DM, to teach players lessons about gaming. I want to game.  I didn't say this is how everyone should do it.  They are mutually exclusive, FOR ME, because I don't have the time to invest that heavily in DMing game that I don't want to play.  Even if I run a sandbox game, I don't want to DM murderous sociopaths.  It's that simple.</blockquote>