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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 144548" data-attributes="member: 2673">Well, as long as we can keep things sociable.  Here's why I take this position.- Everyone enjoys playing, even the ones that sometimes whinge that they want to make an assassin or something.- We alternate DMs ocassionally, and tend to change styles when we do so.- I maintain that there is not something wrong with saying that certain types of characters are appropriate and others are not for a given campaign.  For instance, a campaign might be centered on a certain religion, or take place in a dwarven stronghold.  Does this restrict the players somewhat?  Yes.  But it is worth that restriction because of the increased fun of the campaign, to my group.- Our game time is one day a month.  We all enjoy the game, and spending it with one guy disrupting things is not acceptable.To be honest, IME most people who want to run an evil PC do it because they want to tell the good cleric to go screw himself and torture prisoners when they don't want to talk.  If a player were to present a character that wasn't disruptive to the campaign and happened to be evil - but that wasn't on the first line of description, I'd allow it.  I've never had that happen though.  Everyone likes playing the hero.  (couple new players are an exception, but they're young)</blockquote>