Are you good or evil? (rpg question)

[RedHeadAngel]

Whatever I'm in the mood to be. 👍

[REALWaterHours]

I always play the Villain route because at the end of the day? It's just more fun.

During my first playthroughs of a game (Especially something like BG3) I will usually teeter back towards either the chaotic neutral or lawful good area, but after I've got my taste of how the world works and how the consequences work, I usually default right back into evil characters. I'd define them as usually Lawfully Evil because running around and murdering everything just isn't very stimulating to me. Once you push past the "I'm hurting these characters I love I'm so sorry." (Forgive me, Veronica.) inhibition you can immediately have a shitload of fun breaking normal rules in exchange for doing what your character would do. Having characters that crossed me or are going to get in the way in the future becoming targets instead of being an obstacle course you need to teeter around is just a lot of fun to me.

 

I still remember my favorite character; A Ghoul gunslinger that sided with the Legion. I killed dear Daniel in Honest Hearts (I would've merked Joshua but I didn't realize he immediately despawned AND I didn't have a mod for him to stay, RIP), massacred everyone in the Sierra Madre, cleansed everyone from Old World Blues and sent nuclear hellfire to the NCR while standing over Ulysses' corpse.

 

HELIOS didn't survive, neither did most of the NCR Camps (Including Golf), Freeside got thrown into chaos when Pacer was killed by "NCR Troopers"...Man, I just go on and on.

That said, you don't need to side with the absolute evil factions to play an evil character, and you don't need to not care about anything. You can have biases towards some companions/factions/npcs and tell the rest to fuck off. For instance on that character that was an absolute menace, I still sided w/ Goodsprings instead of the Powder Gangers because my character isn't going to put a bullet in the head of the people that were willing to help him find his footing again.

 

But yea, I love playing the bad guy

[Raven 54]

13 minutes ago, REALWaterHours said:

I always play the Villain route because at the end of the day? It's just more fun.

During my first playthroughs of a game (Especially something like BG3) I will usually teeter back towards either the chaotic neutral or lawful good area, but after I've got my taste of how the world works and how the consequences work, I usually default right back into evil characters. I'd define them as usually Lawfully Evil because running around and murdering everything just isn't very stimulating to me. Once you push past the "I'm hurting these characters I love I'm so sorry." (Forgive me, Veronica.) inhibition you can immediately have a shitload of fun breaking normal rules in exchange for doing what your character would do. Having characters that crossed me or are going to get in the way in the future becoming targets instead of being an obstacle course you need to teeter around is just a lot of fun to me.

 

I still remember my favorite character; A Ghoul gunslinger that sided with the Legion. I killed dear Daniel in Honest Hearts (I would've merked Joshua but I didn't realize he immediately despawned AND I didn't have a mod for him to stay, RIP), massacred everyone in the Sierra Madre, cleansed everyone from Old World Blues and sent nuclear hellfire to the NCR while standing over Ulysses' corpse.

 

HELIOS didn't survive, neither did most of the NCR Camps (Including Golf), Freeside got thrown into chaos when Pacer was killed by "NCR Troopers"...Man, I just go on and on.

That said, you don't need to side with the absolute evil factions to play an evil character, and you don't need to not care about anything. You can have biases towards some companions/factions/npcs and tell the rest to fuck off. For instance on that character that was an absolute menace, I still sided w/ Goodsprings instead of the Powder Gangers because my character isn't going to put a bullet in the head of the people that were willing to help him find his footing again.

 

But yea, I love playing the bad guy

If that is an AI were all in trouble!        

[REALWaterHours]

42 minutes ago, Raven 54 said:

If that is an AI were all in trouble!        

 

Don't worry! I'm realer than real!

 

Let me know if I can help you with anything else.

[Raven 54]

2 hours ago, REALWaterHours said:

 

Don't worry! I'm realer than real!

 

Let me know if I can help you with anything else.

    Meant no offense, your join date/time and 1st post......

You should go here and introduce yourself...

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/173386-say-hi/page/139/#comment-6830415

 

[porkybork]

For video games, usually play as a good guy the first time around, and then do an evil playthrough afterwards if I liked the game enough. For TTRPGs, I usually play as a neutral or good character since it can be harder to play in a cohesive group if you’re an evil character and everyone else is some flavor of good. Unless it’s a one-shot, then I don’t care as much.

[Panther Benz]

I prefer to play as good characters, but sometimes on a 2+ playthrough I play as a clearly evil char. Helps me to see content that I missed before or sometimes maybe just release the steam after stresses IRL

[DarkBlade13]

Depends on my mood.