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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bront" data-source="post: 2213019" data-attributes="member: 19696">Generaly, remember that an Evil character is not nessessarily a bloodthirsty backstabing freak who bathes regulary in other people's blood for pleasure (though that's evil to).Some Tax Collectors are evil, simply enjoying their job and imposing their will on others with their (limited) authority.  They are still loyal to who they serve, and might even be honest, but generaly they will push their authority to the limit, and tend to ignore anything outside their job.  It's a "Sorry, just doing my job" to even Joy when he has to take some poor soul's land due to taxes.  This can apply to guards, and other positions of authority.There is no reason an evil person can't actualy look out for the "good" of others.  It is either just a small part of their personality (Always a big tipper, willing to give to beggers) or it's done in a fairly twisted way (Some could argue vigilanteism could be construed as evil, depending on how it's done)Generaly, an evil person is going to focus on self or cause more than consiquenses or others.  It does not mean that he will rape/pilliage/burn/rob/kill any person or town he comes upon.Here's an interesting suggestion.  Play a good character who slides into evil by going well beyond what would be "good" for his cause.  In his mind, he's still good because his cause is good.  But in action, he is evil.  Think things like environmental terrorists, or protesters that bomb abortion clinics or kill doctors to use a few RL examples of people, who to the general public might be considered evil, but believe their cause is good (I'm not going to get into the actual debate about if it is or not, just using the general public view).Hope this helps.</blockquote>

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