| AncientWolflord |
Everyone seems to think that you've got to be mean and/or nasty if you're evil. Not so; it's far more useful to be seen as standard "good" than obviously evil; if you have to play nice for that, it's worth the effort.
You would get along well with my brother in law. He almost always plays evil, or at least on the evil side of neutral. In our last campaign he played a tiefling rogue/fighter gestalt. He hated everyone in the party, but recognized the fact that we were his best chance to have a chance to be known as the guy who killed the demon king Diablo. Since he wanted the soul of Diablo to become the next demon king he dealt with us because he had to. He never came off as an evil person, just very cold and aloof.
I think the problem is that most people can't separate the moral and ethical spectrums, so they assume evil always has to be chaotic. (Actually a conversations I've had with a lot of my players, since I recently decided to try my hand at lawful evil and everyone I asked about it thought I was a bit crazy for thinking it could be a thing.)