What's the worst repercussions you've experienced from playing an evil campaign?

[Crothian]

That was another thing about the game I was in, complete character co operation. I'm not sure the idea of betraying another PC entered into anyones mind.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Long term evil campaign came to a head when the characters had the dreaded big battle. One guy won and it didn't apparently sit well with others and years latter, despite everyone being, "cool" with it, the two rarely talk to each other any more or are friends even.

 

[tarchon]

One of our players got carried away and went out and killed Orcus in real life.

 

[Lasher Dragon]

One of our players got carried away and went out and killed Orcus in real life.

Well, at least he didn't fall for the old "Head of Vecna" gag.

 

[Torm]

Well, I've never played an evil campaign - but I did have an evil DM, and that had some repercussions that are still with me:

When I was in junior high, I started playing D&D with the college aged son of a friend of my dad. He probably wasn't, but could have been, the inspiration for the Jack Chick publications about D&D - fingernails painted black, made us memorize our character sheets so we could play faster and in dim candlelight, and EVERYTHING was in character. Several years in a row, people's housepets would go missing and turn up decapitated the morning after Halloween - and he always had this knowing smile whenever it was brought up. In his campaign, I was Lightfoot, a LG Ranger dedicated to Tyr - needless to say, he didn't like that character much.

After about a year of this, due to pressures at school and problems between my parents at home and just general weirdness in my life, I kinda snapped. I spent a little over two weeks as Lightfoot. And for quite a while after - about a year and change - I was still convinced I was Lightfoot and had just gotten good at pretending to be this person all these people thought I was. Fortunately (?!), I got in a pretty nasty wreck when I was 15, and suffered what the doctor said was the sort of brain damage that leaves most people hospitalized as vegetables. I ended up having to kind of rebuild my mind. So the person I am now is neither Lightfoot nor who I was before that - although I'd have to say that Lightfoot is a positive influence that helped me get through quite a bit of difficulties with my sociopathic (literally) mother.

 

[Sejs]

What's the worst repercussions you've experienced from playing an evil campaign?

Everybody died, lots of infighting, and nobody had any fun.

 

[Mystery Man]

It was fun, but very railroaded though we didn't care. We just did what the god asked (ie what the DM wanted for us next).

If I were to run an evil campaign with the players following an evil god they shouldn't expect to have an freewill either.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't have any alignment in my current game, but I have some characters that would probably be characterized as evil.

But we're mostly having a blast.

 

[Speaks With Stone]

The only evil campaign I ever ran was ruinous. The PCs were all into being evil but could never settle on how they wanted to do it. Pretty much they laid waste to the original story line by killing and stealing, but unwilling to sully themselves in politics to keep the magic keep they had claimed.

So they became bandits for about two weeks before they decided that was boring. So they travelled to this city that was in the background of one of hte characters and killed everyone that had ever wronged him in his background (along with most of the city when they essentially opened a chaos rift). They then travelled by sea to be attacked by holy warriors and the evil army fighting those holy men tried to recruit them. The PCs decided that didn't fit their style and instead walked along the beach in search of a city.

I stopped the campaign right there. The problem with the evil characters in that game was total lack of focus. Whatever sounded nasty at the moment was what they did and frequently they changed their minds. I rewrote the campaign in front of them every other week. Finally, I realized that it was the players being evil and not the characters and I was their victim.

 

[F.C.Desoya]

It was not a campaign, but a one shot convention adventure....where everyone played evil monster characters. I admit I had a blast, but what I remember most is just how evil we became! Killing women and children, poisoning the town well, strapping the towns healers to our backs so we could have healing when we wanted it, etc....

Again....the trama came from knowing just how evil a person can think.