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Go Lawful Evil...Best way to play an evil player in a good party. I played an LE as a warlock and would often try to convince the party to not kill bad guys like a necromancer. The argument was that we are not the law here and need to bring them to the local constable. Being a warlock of the Old Ones I used telepathy to advise him to surrender so I could get them out of jail latter. And that person would owe me a favor. The party killed him anyway and I spent the rest of the campaign making them feel guilty calling them murderers since he surrendered.

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In my experience, the most important thing is that your evil character prioritizes the interests of the party. His relationship should be beneficial and well meaning for the party but toxic because of how far he'll go for them. For example, if you're playing an assassin, they could be willing to cross lines other players won't, like torturing reluctant informants to the brink of death or secretly getting revenge on anyone who slights the party. Above all, an evil character should cooperate with the party not sabotage it, even if his help isn't something the party would approve of or want.

Some evil character who have fit in with good people (carefully) in various media: Dorian Gray, Dexter, Mr Hyde, Captain Barbosa.

There's an important tip I can give where you can still be a 'good' person. But fall under the Evil alignment. Meaning you GENUINELY believe you are doing good. But its a twisted take. A classic example of this would be Strong rule the weak. Or Lawful Evil. Wherein they believe they are keeping order or whatever, but its a twisted take.

Bad evil is when you play Grand Theft D&D

Favorite character I've ever played was CN boarding on CE. Brushfire druid. Don't get me wrong, this man was evil, he burnt forests...for the natural order, if he didn't kill that overgrowth now it'd kill the whole section of forest. He started full-on plagues!...but not for fun, he just hated how cities shunted the natural order, allowing all to survive and thrive with little to no struggle for thier life. The man even dug up a corpse to turn into a stew and trick good people into eating while drunkenly chanting ORCUS, ORCUS not knowing what it meant...to get Orcus to sell out his own cult a bit, it was worth it to see those people's faces.

Rick Sanchez is my favorite example of chaotic evil. He doesn’t care about making an entire pocket universe of slaves serve him to power his spaceship. He has no regrets about killing thousands, perhaps millions, of people across the multiverse. He has a few people he cares about but it’s a very toxic relationship and he tears his family apart.

Best way I found playing an Evil Character is to have some redeeming qualities. Be charismatic, funny, make the party laugh, do some charity, be nice and polite to people.

Nott the Brave is a girl... a little goblin girl. ☺

One of my favorite characters I ever played was Lawful Evil. He was a warlock of the Old Ones and he became that way via PTSD in war. He would make the party question their morals when he used telepathy to convince a necromancer to surrender, claiming he would get him out of prison so he would owe him. The party was hurt bad by this necro but we were sent to bring him to justice. So I told them if they kill him they will be murderers since he surrendered. We debated for 20 minute until the druid just said I can't allow him to live he is an abomination. So I told the law in town when we returned that they killed him after he surrendered. The DM didn't punish them but my character would remind them at every opportunity they committed an evil act.

I played a sorcerer a couple months ago, I didn't think he was a sociopath, good friends with the party joked around... but the npcs... early in the game my dm thought it would be funny to make a potion in a shop that attracted beholders. Later on in the campaign there was a beholder lair that we didn't NEED to get into, there was a shopkeep that I was blackmailing anyway so in the middle of the night I broke into his house told him that if he didn't leave town in the next hour I'd let his secret out. As he rode off I made him drink my potion. The next morning I told my party that we should go to the beholder lair, are you crazy?? They said I told them just trust me. Basically I was evil in the sense that I had no moral conscience as long as I was helping the group.

I’ve wanted to do an evil character based on that one episode of Firefly where everyone thinks Jayne is a hero. I was thinking a Drow Wizard where the official story was that he came to the surface with a raiding party but when he saw the villagers he realized everything he had been told about the surface world was a lie and he heroically sided with the villagers against his fellow Drow. The unofficial story is that his fellow Drow double crossed him an thought the surface raid would be a perfect opportunity to get rid of a troublesome Wizard and he only sided with the villagers to save his skin. He’s an evil character who has to pretend to be a good guy.

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One of my characters became evil because he died like 56 times and every time was revived in a matter on minutes and later became obsessed with not dying and eventually became a lich after the gm took control of him

You can successfully play a chaotic evil character in a group and be a benefit to the plot and the party. There are hundreds of ways to connect even the most gleefully monstrous of characters to a party. They can view the party as pets (they get so adorably grumpy when you call them pets), tools, be the morbidly funny party cook (I still can't believe nobody ever asked how I always had fresh meat on hand all through an adventure), or even be lovers (no gift is more romantic than a leather dress made from the tanned skins of all who have ever wronged you). You don't have to be the hooded rogue working their whetstone and muttering about when you'll betray them.

Playing as an NE wizard, i have found that the best way to make it more acceptable as an evil player to help your party, is to remember that you are weak on your own. You are helping them in order to help yourself. No other reason than that. If the party goes down you can be considered weak. Now if you for instance see a trap. You may warn the party because YOU do not want it damaging you if its aoe. Other than that, if they do die, loot them. Or raise their body as the undead etc.

I know a guy who threw a Molotov cocktail at a family in order to make it easier to escape a town that was being attacked. He's always doing things like that with 0 consequences, and it got to the point where my neutral good dwarf fighter had to threaten to split his head in two with my axe if he didn't cut it out. He's not even evil just uses being "neutral" to do whatever he wants.

Starting an evil character in a group that has never had an evil character before. I've played evil before, but I really want to deliver a memorable character in this campaign, so I've been doing research. Your tips definitely helped guys! Thanks!