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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3214410" data-attributes="member: 40522">Most campaigns I've ever been in have outright banned evil alignments for PC's. I've only seen a handful of evil characters (outside of villain-themed games) and most of them were petty, shallow, and boring. I don't know if that's because the idea of an evil character is seen as being exotic in its own right or it has more to do with the players themselves.I can count the number of people that have asked me to play evil characters on one hand.One was just out for the shock value, he openly wore a pentagram at the table and several rings with demonic symbols and all that. He just wanted the attention and went out of his way to try and offend people by describing how he wanted his characters to go around killing babies and defiling good shrines with his bodily fluids. We kind of felt the best thing to do was not kick him out, but just ignore his Halloween-evil shenanigans. The idea was to lead by example, but he got bored with the game after two sessions and left.Another was a video game fan that could not make any character whatsoever unless he based it on a video game character (Homeboy brought action figures to the game and even ripped off the names of the characters). He later "broadened his horizons" by making clones of anime characters too, and genuinely thought he was being a constructive player and sharpening his D&D skills. There were several sessions where he skulked through the game when he couldn't play his latest writeup of Sephiroth, Shang Tsung, or Vegeta. To this day I still wonder why he ever picked up D&D in the first place.I've never had any other players directly ask to play evil characters, so it's never really been an issue. But I have nothing but sympathy for the desire for more heroic characters. I do see players meticulously tracking loot and wanting to torture prisoners and the like.</blockquote>

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