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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8920957" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not at all.  They're playing the character perfectly well.  However, due to patterns of in-game character behaviour established during that play, the external/universal perception of that character no longer agrees with the character's (assumed) perception of itself as reflected by what's written on the sheet.  In these cases, the universal perception almost* always trumps the internal pereception.This becomes very relevant when you have alignment-restricted classes or situations, as I do.  It also becomes relevant when there's a clear in-game advantage inherent in being a particular alignment and a player is trying to game the system by writing the advantageous alignment on the sheet but actually playing as something else (I've seen this done, believe me).* - the one exception is a character still in its first few sessions of play that hasn't established any patterns yet; in these cases, I have to go with what's written on the sheet until-unless shown otherwise by the character's ongoing actions.Yet it seems there's some (many? I am not one of them) here who are ready and willing to have that conversation any time a player has a character turn Evil: "No Evil PCs here - you're playing it wrong."Can't have it both ways.</blockquote>