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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ptolemy18" data-source="post: 1925153" data-attributes="member: 24970">JodyJohnson, I strongly sympathize. I've had the same problem more than once in my own D&D games; even though I'm not DMing explicitly heroic battle-vs.-good-and-evil adventures, I prefer running the game from the assumption that the PCs (at least the MAJORITY of PCs... one or two bad eggs can be fun) are "good guys". It's simply easier to come up with adventures if the characters are "good", and it's more satisfying to run them.Otherwise, I always find myself ending up in situations like happened a few games ago: one of the PCs plucks out the eye of a hapless opponent (because the captured opponent lipped off to him); and then I, as DM, feel obliged to role-play the injured opponent screaming and rolling around in agony and begging for his life. :/ Wheee. Fun.(Frankly, I think the REAL heart of the matter is that, as DM, *I* want the fun of playing all the evil sadistic bastards of the campaign world...) <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=";)" />IMHO, the only advantage of running a game with mostly evil PCs is that I somehow feel more free to have horrible stuff happen to them... 'cause after all, if they're behaving so that they'd make unsympathetic characters in a book or movie, they clearly deserve it. <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=";)" /> The "Dying Earth" RPG actually had a mechanism for this ("Sympathy Points" or something like that).Running a campaign for evil, amoral characters can be fun... it's just not fun when you've prepared a campaign for good guys and you have to switch midstream. :/Oh well,Jason</blockquote>

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