Evil-roleplayers please respond- input neededFollow

If they are evil why would they want to help?

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Since this is the focus of your essay, I will try to offer some relevant input.

When writing anything, always consider your reader first. You and people on these forums are deeply familiar and experienced with roleplaying but some of your readers may only have heard of it in passing.

First, you must define what it means to roleplay and illustrate the similarities and differences in roleplaying good and evil. When defining evil roleplaying, I think it is important to note that "evil" does not equate to "mean." As we all know, many gamers make this mistake.

I now play a Human Monk and I roleplay her but not in the way some might think. I do not say 'thee' or 'thou' and I do not say things like 'I must meditate prior to the encounter.' My roleplaying consists of what I do not do. It is quite simple. I do not talk about real life things. To me, that is roleplaying.

I used to play a Dark Elf Necromancer and I role played her with more flair. But again, I did not always do it directly but with emotes. 'Reyla grins as her foes disentigrate' Reyla can not help but to envy her dead comrades' and so forth.

When I did roleplay evilly in conversarions, I was careful not to be mean but rather selfish and indifferent. "You may group with me, and I will fight by your side but be advised, an increase in my own power is all I will fight for."

The benefits?

I cannot pinpoint any benefits to roleplaying evil over good but roleplaying benefits in general include an outlet for your imagination, an escape from real life concerns and a chance to be like a person you are not.

Hah! who cares

I just like to kill dorfs in Butcherblock (with my Erudite Necro) while prepping for LDoNs.

How much does the OP know about the Lore of EQ?

I *try* to keep my characters consistent with EQ Lore for the most part. I do construct back-stories to justify any deviations. Mostly for my own asthetics...

e. g.
My Iksar (universally hated by non-Iksar races in Norrath) monk has worked factions in several cities to do quests and other things (basically be free to move around). Her story is she was sent out by her great grandfather to learn the ways of the Human monks (even though the Iksar tradition is much older).

I could never have a Dark Elf fighting the Orcs in Crushbone for example. Group with light elves to kill ghouls in Lower Guk? Sure.

I do not think my Tunare Druid will ever raid Plane of Growth or kill Tunare either.

My Bertox (evil) Cleric has several conundrums in his story that allow him to fight on either side. He will not do anything overtly which would ruin factions and thus remains fairly unmolested in any city.

As to grouping with players from 'the other team' as it were, if you look at places like PoK or Abysmal Sea, you see all the races living together so I think of the PCs as being more 'evolved' than the rest of the Norrath-bound NPCs.

But as you see, most of my 'role playing' is internal. It makes the occasional comment in groups particularly funny.