Help with ideas - Weird Campaign

[tgoodman2003]

I'll keep this short hopefully ...

We are playing an evil assassin type game. The GM made his own world. We start out by coming back to life on a strange world, hence we are lvl 3. We find out that we only have a month to live because of how we were brought back to life, unless we find more documents to make a soul machine that will let us live longer. So we are about to go in the desert in search of ancient tombs for these documents to save our lives.

My question is, should I play along with the GM and be nice to this odd setting or do the evil thing, hire thugs to do it n get raving drunk, get my seed around so I have grandkids n burn the city down while listening to country music n not necessarily in that order. Any thoughts cause it is odd. We thought it was an assassin type setting, but crawling through the dessert doesn't sound like it. I don't want to ruin the campaign?

Ideas are welcome to say the least. Thanks in advance!

[UnArcaneElection]

^Well, you did say that this is an Evil campaign, right? Although I must say, crawling through dessert does sound odd -- maybe you have to pop out of the cake for the right people to fulfill your quest?

[tgoodman2003]

Popping out of the cake would be great if I could find one. I'm just concerned that it would upset the GM n he feel like I'm messing with him if I go against the obvious path he has put forward.

[TimD]

tgoodman2003 wrote:

My question is, should I play along with the GM and be nice to this odd setting or do the evil thing, hire thugs to do it n get raving drunk, get my seed around so I have grandkids n burn the city down while listening to country music n not necessarily in that order. Any thoughts cause it is odd. We thought it was an assassin type setting, but crawling through the dessert doesn't sound like it. I don't want to ruin the campaign?

There's the murder, mayhem, destruction, and rapine level of evil.

... and then there's country music.

That's just uncalled for, man. That's how you lose friends (and dogs when your ex runs away in your pick-up truck and runs your dog over, I guess).

Keep the evil in game, that's all I'm sayin'...

-TimD

[ericthecleric]

If the GM has put the effort in to create an interesting setting and story, play along. Don't be a dick. It's disrespectful, especially if the GM is a friend of yours.

Of course, it might turn out to be spectacularly bad, but for now at least trust the GM! It might turn out to be a lot of fun!

[UnArcaneElection]

TimD wrote:

There's the murder, mayhem, destruction, and rapine level of evil.

... and then there's country music.

That's just uncalled for, man. That's how you lose friends (and dogs when your ex runs away in your pick-up truck and runs your dog over, I guess).

Keep the evil in game, that's all I'm sayin'...

Or when your dog runs away in your pickup truck . . .

[TimD]

Yet another reason I'm a cat person. Canine car thieves, man. Cryin' shame (but not enough of a cryin' shame to sing country music over... ever... no, really... EVER)

... on a slightly more helpful and non-tangential note, yeah, play it through. It may be that you end up coming out of the desert as uber badasses with some in-game reasons about knowing what you know and, more importantly, needing an in-game reason to find out why you'll want to select and deal with your future targets. After all, you can always kill folks, take their stuff, and listen to the lamentations of their loved ones later :)

-TimD

[tgoodman2003]

I appreciate the insight from everyone! I'll play along n see where it goes and maybe do all the mayhem when I come back to town, but with better music.

Thanks again!

[thedryden]

Remember the only real difference between a good adventurer and an evil one is that you don't actually care about anyone else. You are still just as concerned about money (so being a merc is fine) and you'd be even more concerned about self preservation, so the story hook works.

If you’re lawful evil you’d be concerned with breaking laws (or at least getting caught), and if you’re neutral evil you may or may not be concerned with breaking the law, but you’d probably at least have a concern for your reputation.

Remember total dicks that do what they want when they want with no concern for anyone else only really works if you’re a crazed dictator/king (or at least a lot more powerful than level 3). Everyone else has to actually live in a society and if that society actively wants to kill you don’t live very long. Or to put it another way, evil does not mean your not still a real person.

Of course if you choice to go Chaotic Evil all bets are off. After all “some people just want to watch the world burn.”