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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8921147" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I don't allow evil characters for many reasons.&nbsp; I've been in games that allowed it in the past and some of the things the characters did and how the players described them were disturbing.&nbsp; Along the lines of [ISPOILER]&quot;I grasp her around her throat strongly enough to silence the screams and then slowly choke her to death while watch the light fade from her eyes.&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f922.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":sick:" title="Sick&nbsp; &nbsp; :sick:"&nbsp; data-smilie="19"data-shortname=":sick:" />[/ISPOILER] among other things.&nbsp; I lasted 1 session in that game.&nbsp; I also simply don't enjoy TV shows where the main protagonists are evil.&nbsp; While I don't have HBO, I wouldn't The Sopranos even if I did.&nbsp; If I'm not enjoying the story we're telling and the character's actions in that story, I won't be a good DM.I'm going to disagree with this as well.&nbsp; Greedy doesn't define evil, it's the level of greed and what you do to satisfy that greed.&nbsp; Someone greedily collects gems?&nbsp; Okay, are they paying for them or providing a service to earn them?&nbsp; Shoplift a few gems now and then from a crooked jeweler? Murder an otherwise innocent person in their sleep to get the gem?An greedy PC can be good (or good enough for me to not care what their alignment is if it's a character's PC), it's their level of obsession and what they are willing to do to satisfy that greed.&nbsp; There's nothing wrong with lust as long as it's mutual, gluttony is again a matter of excess and are you taking food from those that are starving*? Wrath?&nbsp; Are we talking about overwhelming rage and killing anyone and anything that gets in our way? Or is it hunting down and killing the BBEG that destroyed your village when you know their identity without a doubt and there is no other way to stop them from continuing their murder spree?I don't expect my player's to run PCs that are saints.&nbsp; I just don't want to deal with or listen to them describe things I would find truly objectionable.*Not to mention that gluttony as a sin always kind of sounded like an excuse to fat shame people to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8921147, member: 6801845"] I don't allow evil characters for many reasons. I've been in games that allowed it in the past and some of the things the characters did and how the players described them were disturbing. Along the lines of [ISPOILER]"I grasp her around her throat strongly enough to silence the screams and then slowly choke her to death while watch the light fade from her eyes." :sick:[/ISPOILER] among other things. I lasted 1 session in that game. I also simply don't enjoy TV shows where the main protagonists are evil. While I don't have HBO, I wouldn't The Sopranos even if I did. If I'm not enjoying the story we're telling and the character's actions in that story, I won't be a good DM. I'm going to disagree with this as well. Greedy doesn't define evil, it's the level of greed and what you do to satisfy that greed. Someone greedily collects gems? Okay, are they paying for them or providing a service to earn them? Shoplift a few gems now and then from a crooked jeweler? Murder an otherwise innocent person in their sleep to get the gem? An greedy PC can be good (or good enough for me to not care what their alignment is if it's a character's PC), it's their level of obsession and what they are willing to do to satisfy that greed. There's nothing wrong with lust as long as it's mutual, gluttony is again a matter of excess and are you taking food from those that are starving*? Wrath? Are we talking about overwhelming rage and killing anyone and anything that gets in our way? Or is it hunting down and killing the BBEG that destroyed your village when you know their identity without a doubt and there is no other way to stop them from continuing their murder spree? I don't expect my player's to run PCs that are saints. I just don't want to deal with or listen to them describe things I would find truly objectionable. [I]*Not to mention that gluttony as a sin always kind of sounded like an excuse to fat shame people to me.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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