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Originally posted by Sazerac:
Thing is, there are as many ways to play "evil" as there is to play "good." Trouble is, most of us have this view of evil as synonymous with "raving psychotic." Yes, it is hard to play that way, but even evil characters have senses of humor, albeit a bit "twisted." Someone who might play "lawful evil", for example, could be played as a conniving and manipulative SOB, who's totally charming on the outside. (Like Alexis (Joan Collins) on Dynasty). An evil person might keep Minsc around just to laugh at his stupidity and make fun of him, but would go to great lengths to preserve him because of the joke factor. Even Chaotic Evil characters have charm; look at Korgan and his bawdy sense of humor. So it's ok to play evil; just have fun with it. And you DON'T have to run your rep into the ground. A truly intelligent evil person wouldn't...they'd keep it around 8-10 by sanctimoniously donating at temples (Talos, of course!) and then feeling free to do their nefarious deeds. Only a total imbecilic or psychotic evil person would let their rep drop to 1 and try to take on the hordes of "do-gooders" coming after them.
The important thing is, whatever you play, is that you have fun with it.  If it becomes a chore, try something different.
Cheers,
-Sazerac
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Actually, I tried doing it the manipulative way, and that is what bothered me. Just killing things doesn't really bother me too much (oops, sorry old man...). It was the insidious, scheming part that got to me the most. I try my best to be honest (to a fault sometimes, just ask my last girlfriend), and generally have a problem with screwing others over for my profit. Just killing them is very impersonal; you just say "oh look, a noble!" and kill him. Easy. Never got to know him, never connected with him in any way, might as well have been a goblin. However, pretending to be his friend while the whole time plotting his ruin and/or demise, now that bothers me. I keep stating that I will play one time as an evil guy (rep around 6, just so I can be disliked but not have guards hounding me), but I always end up abandoning the game, just because I can't see myself doing some of the nasty things required to be true manipulative evil. I had the same problem with PS:T; I have only done the good path through that game, because I couldn't see doing stuff like poisoning people and selling my companions into slavery.
But hey, to each his/her own. I actually did get quite a few chuckles reading the posts from SixofSpades.