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Ilithid-like player character - best practices, inspirations?
Background:
I am starting to play a certainly chaotic, not necessarily evil (depending on your viewpoint) character, which is looking for a reason to go adventuring with a group of magic-using, but ...
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1st Edition Lawful Good woes
I have a few questions I’m hoping more experienced players can help me with. I’ve been playing in a 1st edition D&D game for about 1.5 years now as a lawful good human Paladin. I’m not super ...
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How and when should a lawful good character punish evil behavior? [closed]
I'm new to dungeons & dragons and social gaming in general, and I need some guidance on things that are making it not fun for me to play.
I joined a campaign with the guidance that it was a good ...
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How can a lawful good Paladin help a lawful evil Giant? [closed]
The story:
The Fire giant King has a daughter who was possessed by a powerful Demon.
The Daughter is also a powerful evil Cleric with a hundred followers. Under the influence of the Demon she and her ...
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Can a DM tell a player if/when they act or roleplay in a manner that isn't their alignment?
I'm a very new DM, and I've played three games in total with a new group each spanning about thirty minutes (Role playing games aren't appreciated where I live) . One of my characters is a Chaotic ...
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How do I transition smoothly from True Neutral to Lawful Evil without disrupting the party? [closed]
In our current campaign, my character has oscillated between Neutral Good and True Neutral for a long time, but recent plot events have fundamentally changed the way my alignment works.
The Short ...
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How do you play a character stripped of alignment? [closed]
We are playing a game that doesn't rely too heavily on alignment except for the paladin and that we are on a campaign to stop demonic forces, so we are encountering lots of chaotic-evil outsiders. ...
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How can an evil cleric hide his alignment?
So I have this cleric character who, after some traumatizing near death experience, has turned to evil and necromancy in hopes of finding the key to eternal life. But he also has to hide his alignment ...
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What to model the behavior of D&D's chaotic evil Orcs on? [closed]
Instinctively, I find myself modeling a tribe of Dungeons & Dragons Orcs as similar to Klingons from Star Trek, or Vikings, or even a gang of bikers or skinheads.
But none of these models truly ...
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Roleplay alignment in combat
I am playing a highly combat focused story in Pathfinder. My character is a neutral evil summoner, he basically thinks that the real freedom is achieved by leaving all moral, and that the weak must ...
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How can I play a lawful rogue? [closed]
I wanted to try something new in a Pathfinder campaign, so I created a lawful good cleric/rogue. Problem is, I have no idea how to play a rogue as lawful, due to this:
From the PRD:
Life is an ...
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How can I roleplay my evil character properly?
I have started playing as an evil character in a group of neutral and good characters. We are traveling in a caravan through an undead-ridden world. No teleportation or plane traveling possible.
We ...
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As a Neutral-Good character, how greedy can I be? [closed]
I'm trying to play a neutral good wizard, but recently I came across a large sum of gold while adventuring with the party. Now, some members of the party screwed me out of gold in the past, but in ...
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How can I deliberately cause my player character's alignment to shift?
I'm playing D&D 3.5e as a human Ranger. Our party has recently had a couple of wins, resulting in some nice loot. I was lucky and got the pick of the pile both times.
The first time I got a ...
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Is a Racial hatred to all Humans enough for an evil alignment? [closed]
I have a Strix Character that I am building. In Pathfinder, all Strixes HATE Humans, and even get a racial attack bonus against them.
Since they hate humans so much, they see no issue with harming ...
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