The one time I was allowed to play an evil character in DnD, I was a guest player in an evil campaign. I rolled a CE Kitsune Trickster, way heavy into mind control and shapeshifting, and leaned harder into Chaotic than Evil. Character just had no concept of consequences. He gets what he wants and nothing else matters. Never really got around to meeting the other PCs. DM used the chaos caused by my shenanigans as obstacles for them to navigate around while carrying out their evil plans.
@Zephyn13 I love the idea of using mind control as an evil and chaotic tool. That's fantastic! I had one evil character in a game once cast. Dominate on another player character, and that's when things started to go south for me. I could see both sides of the argument in this case, however. Maybe I'll have to give an evil another shot, I'm suddenly feeling very encouraged and chaotic.
I'm currently playing as an Lawful Evil cleric in a small dungeon with some friends. He not only is part of the mage inquisition, but he is one of the EXTREMELY magic-phobic, but he knows he needs the rest of the party to go through this dungeon in order to "cleanse" it and "re-sacrate" those lands in the name of the Seraphs (gods). The thing is that this dungeon is an old temple of the ancient gods, who disappeared/died/abandoned mortals and some members of the party still respect these gods while my cleric is actively trying to destroy everything. We've been having some really cool roleplay scenes discussing about faith, about philosophy, about our objectives in that place and each side trying to prove their point is being peak cinema!
Imagine Frolo from Hunchback of Notre-Dame going through a satanic temple. That's his point of view of the situation. He "has" to burn and destroy everything inside those walls for they are the purest essence of "evil" in the world.
I played a lawful evil cleric of Death once, and my party was absolutely shocked and appalled that I would desecrate a random god's shrine I found.... like wtf did you expect, I'm just getting started. I quit after that session. They said they were fine with an evil character, and I even pointed out to them that I would have to do evil things, and they said it was fine.
@@vodkast setting up a new campaign for some beginners and without reading the books, the newbie goes, I really like the idea of being a dual wielding drow ranger with short swords… I’m like… do you happen to want a pet panther too? He’s like woah I never thought of that! I just rolled my eyes lol
There's so much I'd like to talk about regarding all of this. For instance I have a genuinely good character that wishes to destroy the world (long complicated story, and I need to sleep and recover from my chemotherapy, so I'll need to cover more of this later).
@@vodkast Thank you, I might have to ask for a rainy day check for at least a day on that, its been a *long* day. Thankfully mostly pain free, but a *lot* happening, and I'm just exhausted.
The one time I was allowed to play an evil character in DnD, I was a guest player in an evil campaign. I rolled a CE Kitsune Trickster, way heavy into mind control and shapeshifting, and leaned harder into Chaotic than Evil. Character just had no concept of consequences. He gets what he wants and nothing else matters. Never really got around to meeting the other PCs. DM used the chaos caused by my shenanigans as obstacles for them to navigate around while carrying out their evil plans.
@Zephyn13 I love the idea of using mind control as an evil and chaotic tool. That's fantastic! I had one evil character in a game once cast. Dominate on another player character, and that's when things started to go south for me. I could see both sides of the argument in this case, however.
Maybe I'll have to give an evil another shot, I'm suddenly feeling very encouraged and chaotic.
I'm currently playing as an Lawful Evil cleric in a small dungeon with some friends.
He not only is part of the mage inquisition, but he is one of the EXTREMELY magic-phobic, but he knows he needs the rest of the party to go through this dungeon in order to "cleanse" it and "re-sacrate" those lands in the name of the Seraphs (gods).
The thing is that this dungeon is an old temple of the ancient gods, who disappeared/died/abandoned mortals and some members of the party still respect these gods while my cleric is actively trying to destroy everything.
We've been having some really cool roleplay scenes discussing about faith, about philosophy, about our objectives in that place and each side trying to prove their point is being peak cinema!
Imagine Frolo from Hunchback of Notre-Dame going through a satanic temple.
That's his point of view of the situation. He "has" to burn and destroy everything inside those walls for they are the purest essence of "evil" in the world.
I played a lawful evil cleric of Death once, and my party was absolutely shocked and appalled that I would desecrate a random god's shrine I found.... like wtf did you expect, I'm just getting started. I quit after that session. They said they were fine with an evil character, and I even pointed out to them that I would have to do evil things, and they said it was fine.
Love the Drizzt Do'urden eye roll lol 2:00
Yeah, enough is enough! lol
@@vodkast setting up a new campaign for some beginners and without reading the books, the newbie goes, I really like the idea of being a dual wielding drow ranger with short swords… I’m like… do you happen to want a pet panther too? He’s like woah I never thought of that! I just rolled my eyes lol
There's so much I'd like to talk about regarding all of this.
For instance I have a genuinely good character that wishes to destroy the world (long complicated story, and I need to sleep and recover from my chemotherapy, so I'll need to cover more of this later).
@@Luredreier I can't wait to hear! Rest easy.
@@vodkast
Thank you, I might have to ask for a rainy day check for at least a day on that, its been a *long* day.
Thankfully mostly pain free, but a *lot* happening, and I'm just exhausted.
@@Luredreier No worries at all. I'll be around. 😀
@@vodkast
Sorry, I have colon cancer with spreading to my liver and liver failure, and there's just been a lot going on lately...
@@Luredreier I'm really sorry to hear that. All our love and good vibes, from The Vodkast. ❤️