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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5982962" data-attributes="member: 807">along with motivation, I'd also give strong consideration to drives the (evil) PCs to be together.  More so than "good" PCs, evil PCs can very easily be swayed to do something that works out better for them to the detriment of other PCs leading to something that may not be the style of game you're looking for (and if you've been avoiding 'evil' games before, you probably don't want to deal with the fallout of all out inter-group backstabbing.)Maybe the Dispater could be the key to this -- some of the evil PCs worship it plain and simple (warlocks, clerics, etc are good candidates for this but others could work too) and thus will do what he asks. And for other PCs maybe the Dispater has something over them that more or less coerces them to have to work with him and his side (a promise the Dispater has made "eternal young/power/fortune/freedom/etc in exchange for this one thing..." or the Dispater might kill/destroy something that the PC holds dear if the PC does not agree to help... though in that case, the PC must have some special skill for the Dispater to go through the trouble of coercing him that way rather than him/her coming to the Dispater for something since devils are more often bargainers.edit:along the same lines as above...maybe the 'evil' PCs were all once "alive" who at some point in their life wished for power/fame/youth/etc. And the Dispater (or his agents) agreed to it but in typical devil fashion there was fine print in the clause and their soul upon death belonged to the Dispater in Hell. Now the Dispater has approached them with the opportunity to regain life in exchange for doing this one task. Thus they are 'mortal' again to do this task. Fail the task and a worse fate will befall them with the Dispater. Succeed in the task (slay the 'good PCs?) and they'll be restored to life (of course, the Dispater probably has something else in mind, like maybe it's a very short new life only to return to Hell again afterwards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).that lets the PCs have a common drive/motive. Also let's the have some criminal backgrounds and associated skill sets and mentalities.  (and maybe part of their deal to do this mission is 'killing people and invoking the name of the Dispater as you do so' thus adding to the potential body count of souls sent to the Dispater ;-) ).</blockquote>

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