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<blockquote data-quote="Scruffy nerf herder" data-source="post: 8557171" data-attributes="member: 7034614">Really I wouldn't be half as perplexed about how people in the D&amp;D community have portrayed evil characters and people who play them, if they were less concerned with that and more concerned with stating that that's simply not something they would enjoy in their own campaign.The problem is that there are droves of people who have declared to myself and others that there is something wrong with people playing evil characters or the campaign more prominently focusing on evil. They often will say that the person must be morally bad. And even more strangely they will also more often than not say &quot;how could someone enjoy RPing an evil character&quot;.This leaves me scratching my head and thinking: what? The DM roleplays evil characters basically every time D&amp;D is played. One would assume that the DM also visibly enjoys doing so.So really the main crux I was getting at is: why are villains, and evil, vilified and hated in a way that they weren't before? And what is it about evil characters that makes so many players not even consider the possibility (or rather the brute fact) that there's more to it than mustache twirling and making things unpleasant?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scruffy nerf herder, post: 8557171, member: 7034614"] Really I wouldn't be half as perplexed about how people in the D&D community have portrayed evil characters and people who play them, if they were less concerned with that and more concerned with stating that that's simply not something they would enjoy in their own campaign. The problem is that there are droves of people who have declared to myself and others that there is something wrong with people playing evil characters or the campaign more prominently focusing on evil. They often will say that the person must be morally bad. And even more strangely they will also more often than not say "how could someone enjoy RPing an evil character". This leaves me scratching my head and thinking: what? The DM roleplays evil characters basically every time D&D is played. One would assume that the DM also visibly enjoys doing so. So really the main crux I was getting at is: why are villains, and evil, vilified and hated in a way that they weren't before? And what is it about evil characters that makes so many players not even consider the possibility (or rather the brute fact) that there's more to it than mustache twirling and making things unpleasant? [/QUOTE]

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