Posted by: Lord Kain
« on: September 03, 2005, 02:38:40 PM »Exactly, this is a common D&D adventure shows stuff on this subject
Goblins have come down from the hills and started raiding villages. The party investigates and finds the Goblins were drivin from there homes by some other creature.
I have a lax working of alignments when I DM.
Chaotic Evil creatures can still make a complex plan of attack and work together. However it be easier for the party to get them to fight among each other then say a group of lawful evil creatures.
Here is an example of something that came up in my campaign.
A group of hobgoblins (a usually lawful evil creature) has set up a base only a few days away from the players home town. They've already sacked on caravan so the party goes out there looking for them. They realize as four level 7 characters they can't take on that army. From a previous encounter they discovered the hobgoblins tactics could be a problem. 1 3rd level hobgoblin charging on a mount with a lance had a fair chance of hiting and a lance on a charge hurt quite a bit.
The paladin decideds to challange the leader of the hobgoblins to a one on one duel. If the paladin wins the hobgoblins will leave for ever. The paladin lost and the wining hobgoblin took his ear.
In the next adventure, one of the paries two monks leaves and is replaced by a Bard. However the bard before meeting the party. Befriends the Lawful Evil Hobgoblin wizard. (the bard is chaotic good) The bard has no reason to dislike the Hobgoblin and the Hobgoblin has no reason to dislike the Bard.
The paladin of course really doesn't like the hobgoblin wizard with his ear necklace which contains said missing ear.
Another example is In a higher level campaign I ran had this villian an evil Monk. The party hated him beyond any NPC. Because he was a villain you escaped from them every time. He may have been lawful evil, but he loved his sister (as a brother, smartass)
The evil monk took control of a city containing the largest Mithrial mine in the world. As far as the people in that town thought this evil monk was a saint and a hero.
Lawful Evil doesn't mean they don't break laws. It does prefer they mean more organization then say a chaotic evil being.
Evil rule by law and order is just as evil as chaos's might makes right.
Goblins have come down from the hills and started raiding villages. The party investigates and finds the Goblins were drivin from there homes by some other creature.
I have a lax working of alignments when I DM.
Chaotic Evil creatures can still make a complex plan of attack and work together. However it be easier for the party to get them to fight among each other then say a group of lawful evil creatures.
Here is an example of something that came up in my campaign.
A group of hobgoblins (a usually lawful evil creature) has set up a base only a few days away from the players home town. They've already sacked on caravan so the party goes out there looking for them. They realize as four level 7 characters they can't take on that army. From a previous encounter they discovered the hobgoblins tactics could be a problem. 1 3rd level hobgoblin charging on a mount with a lance had a fair chance of hiting and a lance on a charge hurt quite a bit.
The paladin decideds to challange the leader of the hobgoblins to a one on one duel. If the paladin wins the hobgoblins will leave for ever. The paladin lost and the wining hobgoblin took his ear.
In the next adventure, one of the paries two monks leaves and is replaced by a Bard. However the bard before meeting the party. Befriends the Lawful Evil Hobgoblin wizard. (the bard is chaotic good) The bard has no reason to dislike the Hobgoblin and the Hobgoblin has no reason to dislike the Bard.
The paladin of course really doesn't like the hobgoblin wizard with his ear necklace which contains said missing ear.
Another example is In a higher level campaign I ran had this villian an evil Monk. The party hated him beyond any NPC. Because he was a villain you escaped from them every time. He may have been lawful evil, but he loved his sister (as a brother, smartass)
The evil monk took control of a city containing the largest Mithrial mine in the world. As far as the people in that town thought this evil monk was a saint and a hero.
Lawful Evil doesn't mean they don't break laws. It does prefer they mean more organization then say a chaotic evil being.
Evil rule by law and order is just as evil as chaos's might makes right.