Hi all, will be playing the RoW soon, was just wondering during the first session do the characters all know each other when we begin or do we all get introduced to each other by chance sorta thing? And is it ok to play a lawful/neutral evil or similar alignment while having a good party? Please no spoilers, thanks.
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Hi all, will be playing the RoW soon, was just wondering during the first session do the characters all know each other when we begin or do we all get introduced to each other by chance sorta thing? And is it ok to play a lawful/neutral evil or similar alignment while having a good party? Please no spoilers, thanks.
This is something you should be working out with your fellow players and your GM, based off your group's preferences and your characters' backstories.
What we worked out with my group's party was specific to the backstories each PC had made. In that case, three of them knew each other, as they had been living in the town for at least a couple of weeks. The fourth was introduced to everyone in the first session.
One of my characters is evil in a group full of good, but all of the players know and are okay with it, and it was initially was run by me as the GM.
The beginning of the story is so open (you are all in a town) that it will depend on your GM whether you will know previously or not. The AP asumes nothing.
About being evil, it shouldn't be a problem in this particular AP, as long as the other players are willing to accept it.
I have played evil characters in good groups and as long as you don't go against the group, you have a good motivation to stay with them, and you are nice enough to them, it shouldn't be a problem.
In my RoW game we had a CN druid who followed an evil goddess. Two other characters were LG and the rest of the party and NPCs had strong good tendencies.
The druid was a really nice boy, always joking and cheering the party up, but he was also the pragmatic kind who always wanted to finish the enemies off so they didn't come for us later, or who wanted us to compromise our morality if we wanted to succeed. That was the polar opposite of what the LG characters believed... And still they ended not only liking him but admiring him in some cases and completely trusting him.
He never imposed his view on the group, he just shared his opinion. And he also proved to be loyal and to be willing to take big riks for the party. In the end, it's that what matters more than alignment.
We had an agreement between players that sometimes when we left some enemies alive, he'd secretly come back later alone to kill them without our characters noticing. But this is best done when all this individualistic decisions are known and aggreed OOC by the whole group.