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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4806043" data-attributes="member: 41584">I've played this very character. An evil cleric of the death-goddess who worked at a boneyard, burying the bodies that were left at the entrance to the cemetary, he whistled a jaunty tune while he buried someone who'd clearly been killed by an assassin, and had a coin in his mouth as a sign of that (a suggestion to whomever finds the body to keep their mouth shut).&nbsp;But finding a body that had been gutted by a serial killer? He made sure not to give her the proper burial rites, as he was kind of hoping she'd rise as some form of restless dead and go after her murderer. Serve the creep right!&nbsp;He served a goddess of death, not goddess of psychopaths who desecrate a holy transition by doing it for *kicks.*&nbsp;I'm at a loss for how to play chaotic evil (or even chaotic neutral, in most cases) as a good team player, but neutral evil is all about selfish opportunism and the more 'allies' between you and the troll, the happier the NE 'team-player' is.&nbsp; And lawful evil is even easier to work into a group situation, as they are significantly less likely to backstab an ally than the average Paladin I've gamed with...&nbsp;It's not like the LE Blackguard of Bane is going to get his knickers in a twist and attack a fellow party member in self-righteous high dudgeon when you 'kill one of my prisoners' or 'interfere in my honorable single combat' or otherwise offend his moral code (such as it is)...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 4806043, member: 41584"] I've played this very character. An evil cleric of the death-goddess who worked at a boneyard, burying the bodies that were left at the entrance to the cemetary, he whistled a jaunty tune while he buried someone who'd clearly been killed by an assassin, and had a coin in his mouth as a sign of that (a suggestion to whomever finds the body to keep their mouth shut). But finding a body that had been gutted by a serial killer? He made sure not to give her the proper burial rites, as he was kind of hoping she'd rise as some form of restless dead and go after her murderer. Serve the creep right! He served a goddess of death, not goddess of psychopaths who desecrate a holy transition by doing it for *kicks.* I'm at a loss for how to play chaotic evil (or even chaotic neutral, in most cases) as a good team player, but neutral evil is all about selfish opportunism and the more 'allies' between you and the troll, the happier the NE 'team-player' is. And lawful evil is even easier to work into a group situation, as they are significantly less likely to backstab an ally than the average Paladin I've gamed with... It's not like the LE Blackguard of Bane is going to get his knickers in a twist and attack a fellow party member in self-righteous high dudgeon when you 'kill one of my prisoners' or 'interfere in my honorable single combat' or otherwise offend his moral code (such as it is)... [/QUOTE]

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