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    Just curious if anybody likes playing an evil charakters.

    In my opinion it's not easy to play an evil one, especially in the Birthright campaign.

    Which experience did you make while playing evil charakters ?

    Seems that voting is "in" at the moment, so I attached a poll: which is the most-liked (and played) alignment.
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    In my opinion it's very hard to play an evil character over a periode of time (once or twice o.k., but longer I think it's difficult to behave evil).

    My favourite alignment is cg followed by ng. I have problems to play neutral and evil alignments and I don't like the lawfull ethos...
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    Azrai wrote:

    > Just curious if anybody likes playing an evil charakters.
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    > In my opinion it`s not easy to play an evil one, especially
    > in the Birthright campaign.
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    > Which experience did you make while playing evil charakters ?
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    > Seems that voting is

    I enjoy both playing, NPCing, and allowing others to play evil
    characters - from time to time. It all depends on whether there is a
    cooperative theme or a competitive theme to the game. I think it is a
    terrible idea to play (or allow to be played) an evil character in a
    cooperative game.

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    I leave evil to the NPCs and creatures in the game. I prefer playing lawful good characters.

    I am assuming rg stands for lawful good. Otherwise the vote is like a hanging chad. Not very accurate.
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    I don't think that playing evil is neccessarily difficult unless you're playing an overt and violent type of evil. That sort of thing gets you deposed quickly. However, a scheming and patient teflon villain can last indefinitely.

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    It is harder to play that type of evil. You can't mess up! One false move and everyone will kill you.
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    Orginally posted by Lord Eldred

    It is harder to play that type of evil. You can't mess up! One false move and everyone will kill you.
    True, a devious villain will get killed off quickly if his opponents catch wind of him. However, an overt direct and violent villain better be extremely powerful (ie. The Gorgon) in order to keep the many enemies that he ends up making at bay.

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    I would have to agree it is harder to be overtly evil and survive but I still say it is harder to role play the devious villain.
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    I played an evil character once and yeah, it was pretty stinking hard. Had to watch every step and speak very little. Problem is, eventually, after travelling with a group and spending lots of time with them, they start to sense your carefulness and start to grow suspicious.
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    For me it depends, Vos are really easy to run its there nature to be evil, with the harsh envirement there in and the trible wars and Belinik and Kriesha dont help matter much eaither. But in a more civilazed part of cerila well they do have to be carful.

    One of the best campaigns I ran was in the Vos Guards the PCs survived and retired now, ones even an Awnsheghlien.
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