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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9738158" data-attributes="member: 4937">As an addendum to my prior response, in general there is no social, emotional or mechanical incentive to put &quot;Evil&quot; on your character sheet and then play a good character.&nbsp; I have seen it happen once, but it wasn't because of an incentive.&nbsp; The player in question could only play himself and he himself was &quot;Lawful Good&quot;.&nbsp; When the group decided to play a pirate theme gamed, he deliberately tried to create as evil themed of a character as he could - a half-orc &quot;assassin&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; But in actual play, he might as well been still playing his Paladin.&nbsp; The closest he came to skullduggery was just being tactical when outnumbered.&nbsp; It pained him to participate in piracy even though his character was supposed to be in theory a pirate.So while in theory you could have a character with Evil on the character sheet, but a player consistently showing mercy, generosity, kindness, empathy, and so forth, I just don't think I'm ever going to see that and have to deal with it.But there are strong social, emotional, and in some cases mechanical reasons to have &quot;Good&quot; on your character sheet, even though you are continually merciless, selfish, violent, short tempered, and cruel.&nbsp; So that's what I generally have to deal with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9738158, member: 4937"] As an addendum to my prior response, in general there is no social, emotional or mechanical incentive to put "Evil" on your character sheet and then play a good character. I have seen it happen once, but it wasn't because of an incentive. The player in question could only play himself and he himself was "Lawful Good". When the group decided to play a pirate theme gamed, he deliberately tried to create as evil themed of a character as he could - a half-orc "assassin". But in actual play, he might as well been still playing his Paladin. The closest he came to skullduggery was just being tactical when outnumbered. It pained him to participate in piracy even though his character was supposed to be in theory a pirate. So while in theory you could have a character with Evil on the character sheet, but a player consistently showing mercy, generosity, kindness, empathy, and so forth, I just don't think I'm ever going to see that and have to deal with it. But there are strong social, emotional, and in some cases mechanical reasons to have "Good" on your character sheet, even though you are continually merciless, selfish, violent, short tempered, and cruel. So that's what I generally have to deal with. [/QUOTE]

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