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by mindcrime 3415 days ago
Every D&D group I've played in heavily discouraged, if not outright disallowed, PC's with "evil" alignments. And we've always played with an implicit, if unwritten, rule that the player characters do not fight each other. A certain degree of tension between PC's is fine, but no group I've ever played in allowed outright fighting within the group. Fighting the monsters and NPC's is hard enough.

So really, I'd blame the DM and/or the group as a whole for even allowing the situation where an evil character was part of the PC group.
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namlem 3415 days ago
Almost every group I've played in has had evil characters, but PVP has always been taboo. If you're going to play an evil character, that doesn't excuse you from being a dick to other players.
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lithos 3415 days ago
My groups force evil characters to put effort into being evil. You need to work up a good reason why your character is working with the group, and how you hide it.

I've also played a Forest Gump good character with a group of evil characters. Dumb as a sack of potatoes, but willing to work with people clearing out obviously evil baddies (while actually clearing out the competition from the rest of the parties perspective).

Evil or chaotic doesn't mean dumb or crazy.

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