My daughter, playing her first game, summed it up pretty nicely, “If everyone knows I’m evil how will I get anything done?”.

"Villans who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those that cloth themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged." -Jean-Luc Picard

I have a hard time getting DMs to let me play evil characters. "All evil characters do is kill and steal from their party," they say. "Why would I steal what's already mine and kill the people carrying it for me?" I retort.

imagine a Chaotic evil life domain cleric referring to the rest of the party before a battle, "go forth my reusable cannon fodder"

I'm glad you made a distinction between evil and villainous.

*Slaps roof of evil character* This baby has a rich backstory, interesting motivation, and still meshes with the group. He may be evil, but it just works much better this way.

19:15 "It's not like I didn't shoot you because I like you, b-baka."

"Hello internet, Seth Skorkowsky." Hearing that phrase immediately makes my day better.

One of the most memorable campaigns I ever played was as an all-goblinoid evil party. The idea was we had to build up our goblin tribe and take over the horrible swamp we all lived in. We basically got to be cartoon bad guys, it was brilliant.

Most real life evil disguises itself as good, so being evil in a game doesn't mean flaunting your evilness at every opportunity. You still need to function in society.

I'm reminded of a Lawful Evil character played by a friend in a campaign a while back. He was a Lawful Evil Battlemaster Fighter named Istvaan, the last remaining member of a family of minor nobles. He was born with severe sociopathic qualities, traits that commonly occurred in men in the family, causing him to develop sadistic tendencies and bloodlust. But he eventually found a way to channel his dark nature into productive means as a mercenary. In doing so he was able to satisfy his sadism by mercenary work to become a productive and fuctional member of society; hunting down bounties and killing monsters while breaking no laws and always paying his taxes with fairly earned coin. And if he happened to take a much more visceral satisfaction in his work than most, well....who's complaining? He only goes after criminals or monsters anyways, and there's never any shortage of those around.

Great topic. There are many reasons a villain might act in the interest of helping another. 1. "They're my sheep. Only I get to fleece them." - this is the "my property" theory you brought up. Much like an abusive older brother, the villain rises up because they feel compelled by an "us vs. them" mentality. (Dr. Doom is like this. Hell, Doom even helped to deliver Valeria Richards when Sue was in labour. The price? He got to name her after his mother) 2. Association. - "I don't care about your agenda. She does, though and I need her. That makes you necessary for now." 3. Convictions. - "I have rules. One of those is proper manners. You've treated this person very poorly without any cause, and I cannot tolerate such crude behaviour. Just because I'm a criminal doesn't mean I have standards." (These are both like Raymond Reddington, and the third is like Dr. Hannibal Lector) As an example, I played an evil Draconic Sorcerer once in the "Princes of the Apocalypse" storyline (a poor module, but that's another story). I immediately started using my resources to repair the main town when attacked. I improved the school. I romanced one of the well known citizens. I paid for walls to be erected around the town, and contacted the criminal organization I dealt with to add extra hands to do so. I reinforced the town defenses with those same thugs. When the town was attacked, I made sure that the citizens saw me doing it, holding nothing back. When opponents were captured, it was be who interrogated them publicly and also me who executed them. When the local sheriff questioned me, I had him killed too. By that time, the citizens had seen me find cultists and defend their community. They had seen me build up and improve their community. They saw me take the time to become one of them by developing key relationships. They didn't rise up. I was their hero, and this was MY town. When the citizens realized my nature, it was too late. Even the other player characters, who suspected my alignment, did what PCs do and spent their money on themselves. They didn't play politics. They didn't play the long game. When they realized what I had done, I had a fortified town and a small army. Evil doesn't have to be stupid, but it often has to be patient. Evil requires discipline, and it requires standards.

The book “The Black Company” is an excellent example of an evil character claiming the protagonists as “theirs.” Soul Catcher is a terrifying and patently evil character, but she protects the protagonists as her tools and even maintains an eerie almost-rapport with them, with the result that the reader is always a bit uncertain about the relationship between Catcher and the protagonists. It definitely makes for fantastic tension.

Whenever my players ask what alignments are acceptable to play in my game, I say "I don't care, it doesn't matter, but your character HAS to be able to play well with everyone else."

My DM: "So, tell me about your character!" Me: "Well... uh... he has heated leather seats?"

Neutral Evil was one of my favorite alignments, I envisioned them as the best way to represent the true mercenary protagonist of the old morally grey Pulp Fantasy. Cold blooded, pragmatic, aloof but not a total destructive maniac. Unless somebody needs him to be...

The one thing I can say on "how to play an Evil character" is "Don't betray your party without a really good reason that they know of." I think being evil or good is all about breaking or upholding the implicit and explicit social contracts. Good characters follow those contracts, uphold them, create them, and even punish those who break them. Evil characters break those contracts, subvert them to their means, and avoid or redirect the punishment for doing so. But the adventurer party is build on implicit and explicit social contracts. As such the Evil character needs to know to not break those. To be Good within the party, but Evil outside of it. The party offers protection. deniability, reputation. Do not shoot your only shield in the back. That's bad for your health.

When he pointed out that the group could be seen as "theirs" when it comes to the evil pc, it reminded me of my friend's evil character. He was all about one of the pcs so was all about killing the big bad because how dare anyone mess with his lil adopted nephew. XD he took it as a personal slight.

Its like when Doc Holliday in the movie Tombstone was asked why he was standing with Wyatt Earp: "Wyatt Earp is my friend" "I got a lot of friends" "I don't"

14:55 - "What reason does the rest of the group have for keeping this character around?" is pretty important. It's the question I asked myself every time my friend wanted to play a kender.

Another of my favorite motivations for an Evil player to rescue another player? "Because if I let some pissant like you mess with my coworkers, it makes it look like I'm too weak to stop you. I am *not* weak!"

I think a neat little motivator for an evil character would be a self-serving sense of security. The character's been hurt before, maybe they were even "good" at one point. But some terrible event, or a series of terrible events, made them feel deeply insecure about their place in their world, their safety or so on. Like they need to get this money to keep the world from kicking their life out from under them again. Perhaps they even think to themselves "I just need to get x amount of wealth to do y thing and I will never be evil again, it's just so I don't have to be homeless, vulnerable or impoverished again". Not only is the idea of accruing wealth for that feeling of security a good motivator for wanting money all the time, but I also think it's a great way to make an evil character relatable and even personable. Not sympathetic necessarily--they still would put other people's needs well behind their own if it made them a dime--but certainly more understandable and easier to jump into, as it were.

"What reason would your villain have to run with these goody two-shoes." Well, turns out that my eventual plans to rule the kingdom and dominate its people (not my actual plan, you don't have the clearance to know that) require there to *be* a kingdom and its people at the end of the month. So if that elder god wakes up and eats us all, that's gonna put a bit of a dent into my plans. And, as much as I'd usually stay away from these kind of principled adventurers, they seem to be the best available shot for the problem at hand. Gotta be pragmatic. And that includes not actively antagonizing your fellow party members. A party that distrusts each other isn't gonna solve problems. "What reason would these goody two-shoes have to run with a villain?" Turns out having someone with a...different perspective on things can make many things much easier. And often people tend to be softer on their hard moral lines when they're not the ones that have to do the deed. The heroes got themselves into prison over a misunderstanding with the local authorities, and the Paladin insists on trusting the justice system to sort things out? Well, unfortunately for you I happen to know a bit about the local bureaucracy and by the time your case has been reviewed, it'll be a fortnight. Valuable time I'm sure you all agree we don't have. Fortunately for you I happen to know a bit about the local bureaucracy and which pockets to sink a few gold pieces into to have us released by this afternoon. "Don't burn down orphanages!" Who would even do that? Save the orphanage! Put yourself front and center to save it. Thankful hungry children living at the fringes of society looking up to you are the perfect first step to loyal employees. Help them grow and train them to fend for themselves (and for you); help them band together and they can kick out all those street gangs that bullied and extorted the poor and needy and set up protection for those in need...for a reasonably small price. The kids get some money for food and niceties, the poor disenfranchised have likeminded protectors and you have a loyal street gang spreading their (and your) influence all over town.

16:25 [Deadpan] "Tell them the price last". Why do I get the feeling that Seth moonlights as a Crossroads Demon?

*Slaps the roof* "You can fit so much character development in this baby."

I'm extremely happy and proud of you for going through this entire video without referencing Raistlin or Dragonlance even once.

I'm playing in Hell's Vengeance right now as a player, an all-evil pathfinder campaign. We did some very evil things like rebuilding and protecting a hospital, lmao. we have a hard time being bastards.

Jane from Firefly is a good example of an evil hero (Or Three from Dark Matter). They want to help the group but are willing to go places that the other characters aren't.

I really like your idea of evil characters as having very low empathy. I think this is the gold standard for playing these characters.

11:10 - Gendo Ikari says "Hi". Or rather, he pushes up his glasses, and Fuyutsuki is delegated to saying "Hi".

I came up with my favorite idea/motivation for an evil character while reading through the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. There's not too many justifications for playing a fully chaotic evil member of the cult of Rakdos in a party of "heroes." Unless you're a ringmaster in one of the cult's circuses and you're a fiend pact warlock whose main long term goal is to seduce the party's paladin to the dark side and get them to swear a new paladin oath to the demon lord Rakdos. You're always going to "do the right thing" and play along with all the party's heroics. And in your downtime maybe you take the paladin to see a few "saucy puppet shows." You take them to a bunch of off broadway plays and wine and dine one or more of your party members. Before each show starts you get up to go get everyone something from the concession stand, and then you slip back stage and tell your fellow Rakdos cultists running the show just what lines to alter and scenes/effects to play up to win over your party members. Then as time goes on, the shows get bloodier and deadlier until the other party members have no idea when a few satirical puppet shows in a busy market place turned into the stadium sized blood orgies the cult of Rakdos is known for. And the best part of it is it's entirely up to the paladin and the other party members if your big evil scheme works or not. If someone tries to call you out for turning the party evil just say "It's entierly up to Dweebles how he plays his character. I'm just showing everybody a good time."

I like the idea of a classic "Evil Overlord" after he's been defeated and overthrown by the stereotypical Valiant Hero. Now he's without his Evil Tower of Dread, with its breathtaking views of a nearby Volcano, Dungeons of Darkness and Armies of Malice and forced into adventuring to make ends meet. In a World where Anti Heroes and Edge Lords are becoming more and more popular the classic Dark Lord and muscle bound 80's style Barbarian Hero are becoming less and less popular. You could even have them in the same Party, old rivals who understood "How the game was played" back in their day, now past their prime and sticking together as the closest thing either one has to a friend.

I clicked so fast, but I need to go to sleep. I will watch this tomorrow! You always make good videos, so excited to watch it.

Every time I create a new character, I ask two basic questions: How did the character learn his skills and why is he out adventuring? Answering those questions always helps me create a well rounded character but the second question gives me a reason for why that character is in the party and what he hopes to achieve.

This is exactly how I've played both of my evil characters. One was a disturbed necromancer who did some truly awful things and doesn't feel bad about it, but he still abided by his companions wishes and cloaked his evil as being for the "greater good." The other one is an Oath of Conquest paladin, who isn't villainous, but definitely has an inward pointing moral compass. Most of what he does is for him; if it benefits others thats ok but it's not his goal.

"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun"

Jayne was a perfect example of an evil character. Great video!

I actually plan on possibly playing a neutral evil necromancer noble who is after the people who kidnapped his daughter. He would work with heroes because you can't trust other evil people to help search for a little girl. Though of course he doesn't make it too obvious. This video is definitely going to be helpful.

I am currently playing a neutral evil necromancer hobgoblin in one of my campaigns. One of the party members reminds my character of their son which they lost (maybe). So the whole the party is mine deal totally fits his motivations right now. I also ended up saving 8 tabaxi from torture and death because it was quicker than arguing with the elf.

I once played a drow elf mage in 3e dnd. He ran from drow society. And since he was in the under dark he was able to be pretty twisted. But most everyone in the under dark was evil. He wasn't a serial killer or mass murderer as much as someone you really didn't want to be standing between him and his goal. Was one of my favorite campaigns. And Neutral/Evil doesn't mean Neutral/Stupid. This video was a great explanation of what a great evil character can be.

Best example of an evil character: Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, the author always finds an excuse why him serving the party in truth only serves himself. Playing an evil character you maybe want to be like that author: let your character do the right thing, then show everyone how it got you closer to your own goals.

My first character was a LE Duergar Conquest Paladin (5e). My DM made an exception for me. The character ended up dying at the first BBEG confrontation but he's still talked about fondly by all the members of the group even now. Playing an evil PC well is still a badge of honor that I didn't realize until later.

2:09 "Tic-tac-toe board of morality" reminded me of the Animaniacs bit "Wheel of morality, turn, turn, turn. Tell us the lesson we should learn."

"you're on my crew." I see what you did there, Seth.

This makes me wanna collectively decide as a party that someone is the "leader" and the rest of us are their minions that do their bidding. I'd be so down for playing a lil minion servant

A nice example of an evil character in a team of heroes: Belkar the Sexy Shoeless God of War

I think Ainz Ooal Gown is a good template for successfully playing an Evil character. Look at the way he dealt with Lady Clementine. He didn't really care that she killed those adventurers. But he DID care that he was deprived of a useful asset. Or when Eight Fingers captured Tsuare. He didn't care about her, but he DID care that someone under his protection was taken. That is something he would NOT stand. Just imagine the hell that will befall someone if they actually took one of the floor guardians? Someone he ACTUALLY cares about.

I feel like the show Blacklist does a good job of having an Evil Character with other good PCs. I mean you have a criminal who is using the other's to expand his empire, but is still protective of the party. Then you have Dembe, who is straight up Lawful Good, but is trying to save the soul of Raymond.

One of my favorite characters of all time was evil. He was willing to do anything to overthrow the king that put his father to death(I know cliché). When our campaign ended with my killing the king in front of everyone, they were all shocked, over 3 years no one had realized I was playing an evil character. He respected the party so much he hid his evil actions from them. Of course the king's guard kinda killed the whole party for my actions, but I will be damned if Valax didn't die with a smile on his face!

I love that Seth looks at evil characters the same way I do. My favorite example of "Evil characters" in RPGs is the Scorpion Clan in Legend of the 5 Rings. They are bound to protecting the empire, and not bound to the view of honor like the other clans are. This duty above honor approach allows them to do the despicable deeds in the dark that the other clans refuse to even think of doing. All in the name of the empire, to which they are sworn to protect.

Well stated. I've run a few evil characters and they each fit into the party well because they were what I like to call "affable-evil". They were friendly, charismatic, and happy to help people, as long as they aren't in the way. They valued the party *exactly* as you prescribed. They considered the party to be some combination of invaluable or endearing. These were characters who would turn on the party at the end of the trail should the perfect opportunity present itself, but not for anything except the total completion of their primary end goal. One of my characters was a Yuan-Ti snake cultist who wanted to usher in the end of days by awakening Dendar the Night Serpent. The goal was to end the world, and he would proselytize to the party openly. He would have sacrificed the party if it was the key to his victory, but he genuinely liked them and would regret the loss. The party kept him around because he was friendly, helped those in need, and he was great for negotiating with Hags, Vampires, and other obviously evil entities. He wasn't worried about dying to protect the party because he had absolute faith that he would succeed, and that the party would be there to see it happen.

Your shirt is character creation in "traveller".

There is also the good character that slipped into evil being caught between what is good inside and what has to be done.

The game I'm in right now has us all playing characters who are either straight up evil or at least totally self interested. Everyone of our characters would gladly sell out the others with no remorse and we're all having a great time playing this group.

Spot on, Seth! I always replace the word "evil" with "selfish" in my head, because that transforms it from a nebulous concept into something real. My characters are always on the spectrum of evil, because I find it leaves me with much more interesting choices to make, as well as some free strife in the party (which is good). My characters have bought slaves and sold false plague cures, but that doesn't mean they can't feel shame, or love, or change their minds. I feel like when I play on the spectrum of evil I actually have to try to do some mental gymnastics and actually think about what my player would do all the time, whereas with a "good" character you can just sort of go with the flow because most quests are about helping people. Also, the part about the party being "yours" is a fantastic tool for any evil character. It binds you to them. But you also need to make concessions and follow the party as they agree to help the party find some farmer's lost pig or whatever the module calls for. Just make your character roll her eyes and complain all the way. Sitting a quest out because you're "evil" is a failure by you as a player.

You're so underrated, Seth.

The most loved character I have made was a lawful to neutral evil tiephling. He was clearly an evil character out of the public eye, that may have had a thing for arson. He is/was a warlock in the service of a devil that was the pact holder of the warlock that saved his life from a sinking ship about a month or so from any land, and his deal was he had to mark 10,000 souls with his magic to bind their souls to the devil holding his pact. Friendly or otherwise alike, he just never told the party that his magic damned them for eternally.

One of my main rules for any character (good or evil) is that I dont care how you play your character as long as you dont disrupt the group and have a personal (character) stake in the group's success.

One of the first games I GM'd had an evil character. He was the most memorable part of that campaign. He was a Corpse Eater, a race in the game I was playing (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy) and ended up running a "jerky" stand for extra money between adventures.

Rule number 1 about this kind of thing: never work against the party just "because it's what my character would do, they're evil/chaotic neutral". If you ever do work against the party on something, you make absolutely certain that it's a damn good reason. You can be evil/CN without being a disruptive ass.

I absolutely LOVED the Mr. Freeze reference! Thank you for that

I love these videos, I feel like I learn something everytime I watch. Thanks Seth.

Reminds me of my character Talvrae, she's a Drow bard, neutral evil, and an escape slave. She stick to her party because she know she would not be accepted by the surfacer and they act as her shield. What she value is her freedom. She do what she have to do to remain free.

The Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!!!

I've been playing an Evil character in the D'n'D game. A lot of what comes up in this video is how I've been playing them on instinct.

Thank you for making the start of December fun.

Excellent video, this did a great job of explaining how I felt but was unable to put into words. This also reminded me of the last player character I had, she was a necromancer who just wanted to be left alone to pursue her interests with the undead, and ended up becoming a big damned hero because the only way she could be left in peace was to help defeat the big evil villain .

Oh! Thank God! A sane person is posting.

(About to go to bed.) (Seth uploads new videos) "I didn't need sleep anyway"

From a firefly fanboy, I completely agree with your Jayne analysis!!

Alwasy happy to see you upload Seth but ill have to see this one tomorrow, finals really do just suck.

Now I have to watch Firefly again, and when is the the co-lab with Professor Dungeon Master coming...

The problem is that people have a really reductive view of alignment as personality traits (because only 9 personalities exist). The way that evil characters get a bad rap is for the same reason that thieves/rogues get bad raps for stealing from the party or chaotic alignment is an excuse to take actively self-destructive actions any time they want to be a role-play terrorist. Almost any time you hear about how an "evil" PC is a problem, it's always going to have a player who betrays the party "because they're evil". If you take the idea that almost any organization, no matter how noble (even if it's a religious institution with literal angels that can explicitly see the darkness in mortal souls), is going to have some people who don't fully live up to the creed of their organization. Sometimes, good organizations use bad people to achieve their goals, and those bad people will feel like part of the team. (A sadistic cop who enjoys brutalizing suspects still feels strongly about the fraternal bond of police officers, and the Blue Wall means even good cops protect their bad apples.) It's always been kind of stupid and unrealistic that D&D features gods of torture and murder that evil people pray to in return for being tortured for all eternity when even evil characters who can pay at least enough lip service to at least a neutral, if not good deity can enjoy a pleasant - if not euphoric - afterlife can escape that fate. In a game where you can *literally visit the afterlife while alive,* it makes no sense to have any but the most absurdly self-destructive characters pray to devil princes. You can just plain be a bastard who knows how to do JUUUUUST enough good to keep one toe in the Pearly Gates. Likewise, in real life, even people who are definitely horrific in their willingness to do violence, like a member Mafia, has their own code of ethics, and they will fight for those who are part of their friends or family, even if they have zero empathy for the many, many other people they hurt. You can also play "evil" as "damaged". They're willing to work with the party, but they're like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas - always one wrong word away from exploding on even their allies. Or else, they're fine to their allies, but highly vengeful or sadistic towards enemies. (This is often the case with "neutral" or "good" PCs, whose players tend towards extreme vengeful behaviors, where the DM has to step in and say the PCs aren't actually "good" - cue the drama.) Amusingly, in the game I'm currently playing, one of the players went with an evil character at first, a brutal, arrogant lay-noble who wanted to become a high noble no matter the cost... but one of my characters was basically a cartoonishly good celestial (lyrakien azata) who defeats enemies with THE POWER OF LOVE! In spite of being 324 years old, she permanently has the mind of a 7-year-old whose view of the world was informed by magical girl shows. Also, she was a good witch where I interpreted "cackle" as "cheer" (because I only use Protective Luck and then Fortune when I leveled up enough all day every day), which I perform by making rhyming couplets. The other player, for some reason, did not feel he could play a gritty realistic mercenary opposite her. ("Once more, I prove that evil is no match for the power of HUGS!")

A friend of mine told me about to they had a player who was a good player the whole but every time he made a carbon copy paladin. Same God same alignment and border line same stats and skills. He refused to diversify even when the group could really use a different type of character. The game Master went to my friend and said, I need you to play a chaotic evil vampire. Yeah don't have the time but it was a very interesting year in roleplaying for them.

Seth, you're making an amazing work here on KZfaq. That motivated me to buy your books and I must say that I am very pleasantly surprised. Please continue.

I view evil as not doing things for altruistic reasons and being mostly self serving. They dont have to murder and steal all the time. Your average mercenary is neutral evil.

Aaaw, Evil Jack's a tsundere

I am actually running a game where I encouraged my players to play Evil characters. I am doing a whole corruption arc thing and the goal of the players is to resist it long enough to find a way to escape the realm they got trapped inside. It's a Legend of Zelda game and they are sorta trapped in the Dark World by Ganon. My players are having fun so far, but they have no idea

This is a really great video on a difficult topic. First: Thank you, for making the distinction between evil and villainoud. It's where I feel most talks on this subject comes to a screeching halt, because many people think they're the same thing. Great examples as well, especially with Jayne. There's a friend of mine that needs to see this video =)

chaotic characters are waaaayyyyy more problematic than an evil characters. I like having evil characters in my campaign.

The spiciness of this topic is off the charts.

I really enjoyed this video. Great job Seth

Well done you have a interesting way of explaining things and yes I could see the firefly cast as a party of space adventure

This is how I am playing my current dragon sorcerer, Tarthus the Scorched. He is evil, a red dragon, but he will not hurt the party for they are his allies and therfore like his treasure, his duty to defend them from harm.

Don't even need to watch the video, here's how: Rub hands together. Make with the evil laugh.

I love playing lawful evil. they dont cause disruption with any murder or nonsense BUT they will go along with any plan the group comes up with.

Joe Manganiello's character Arkhan the Cruel is a great example. He appeared on Critical Role for the final battle against the BBEG Vecna, and they new he was a paladin of Tiamat but accepted his aid. As soon as the fight was over he took the Hand of Vecna, said "Sorry, it's just business." and teleported away.

Ha, the greatest DM doesn't exi-

It bothers me whenever players or GMs speak out against evil characters. Evil characters can be extremely compelling when played well. Some of my favourite character that I or players in my group have played fall under the evil allignment umbrella. I could further ellaborate my philosophy but I then I'd basically be repeating the talking points of Seth's video.

I have been trying to tell this to my players for years. Thank you for making a video about it.

Thanks for another awesome video, Mr. Skorkowski.

Whether Jayne really "betrays" his own crew is somewhat debatable, considering he's been the victim of in-party violence (for no really good reason) at that point. While the action still fits the Evil Agenda, there is an element of Looking Out For #1 aside from just "money was too good." Sadly, Firefly's writing has a tendency towards Mary Sues, so his being stabbed as a legitimate motive gets ignored by the plot.

My group and I have always called it "classy evil" vs "cliche evil". Classy evil is the type of evil that makes you say "Hell yeah! I'm in!" regardless of what two little letters sit on the alignment chart. Cliche evil is what horror stories are spawned from.

Brilliant video, Seth.

Another great video. I have always loved playing evil characters, exactly because of the moral choices and dilemmas. Trying to understand why this character is evil, what are their limits and what make them pause. Subverting expectations with believable motivations is one of the best role-playing moments we can provide to our groups, either as players or GMs.

Thing about alignment is it is literally just moral philosophy, and carries all the complexity of that, then trying to force it into a simple, codified system. I actually don't mind the alignment system but I definitely have a different interpretation then seth. I always saw it as Good=you are more likely to give into your impulses of kindness and charity. You care allot about those close to you and even strangers. Neutral=self serving and wether your actions outcomes are good or bad for others is not much thought about, whith in reason. You care a good deal about the people close to you, but you dont really care much about strangers. You dont hate strangers you are just indifferent. Evil= you give into your darker impulses and care nothing for others or actively want more suffering. You can have a clique that you like a lot, but you are indifferent to almost everyone else and see them at most as tools or obstacles. You really don't consider people as moral objects, and having a human killed is as easy as getting your dry cleaning done. Law= You value a system of laws or codes, wherever they may come from. You may be more receptive to following rules but always follow your main code first. (Religious law, honor code, criminals code, etc) Neutral=You dont care about following the law or trying to create chaos, you do what you have to to survive and further you own goals, within reason. Chaotic= you don't see much value in codes and laws and chaffe against them when you are restricted by them. You often try to avoid areas where power of law is strong and seek out or create lawlessness. I thinks the alignment system is deeply strange but interesting, and a more loose system of values and beliefs is more realistic, but it is interesting to see other perspectives.

Step 1: Cover yourself in oil. Step 2: Wait for it to rain. Step 3: Fly... I mean play an evil character.

Awesome vid man this is the stuff i subscribe for.

Great vid, man.

Alright Seth, you've convinced me. I'm evil.