A little back story. My friends and I have been talking about playing again, it's been a while, and decided to play a 3.5 campaign. The GM decided that he wanted to play a pathfinder/3.5 campaign. Here is the problem. The group had gave the basics of what they wanted to play, we had a CG rogue, a LG cleric of a certain sun god, and one player just said he wanted to play something arcane. I decided to play a paladin because I actually enjoy their fluff and it fit with this party. Then when we got together to help out the rogue and cleric come up with ideas because they are relatively inexperienced players, the fourth decided that he wanted to be a warlock, an undead CE warlock. After he saw my character sheet or more particularly seeing what smite does to evil undead he changed his tune almost immediately. Now my purposed question is should I just make something else? I'd have fun playing anything because, hey I'd still be playing. I'm more of the one to attempt to make sure everyone is having fun than anything else.
With 2 other good party members its best the chaotic evil undead characcter be the one to change. I mean honestly its one thing to want to play an evil character, its another one to want to play a CE undead player character. I think you are fine with your paly, and he made the right choice to change.
He chose an alignment opposite to the rest of the party, then changed his mind when he saw that you could easily kill him in a fight. It's pretty clear that he was planning on PVP and backstabbing the rest of you. No favors are deserved.
Stick with your character. His would have clashed with the cleric as well, so all you did was be the biggest reason his character wouldn't have worked with the party.
If he wants arcane that could work with the party, but wants a little sinister mixed in, point him towards a Pathfinder witch. Ask that his alignment be as least Lawful Neutral but encourage him to do something more Good aligned to better mix with the party.
Thanks for reassuring, just wanted to make sure and all. And to Caleb, that is one of the things I did. Along with just asking if he wanted to stay warlock and just not the evil undead part.
CalebTGordan wrote: Stick with your character. His would have clashed with the cleric as well, so all you did was be the biggest reason his character wouldn't have worked with the party.
If he wants arcane that could work with the party, but wants a little sinister mixed in, point him towards a Pathfinder witch. Ask that his alignment be as least Lawful Neutral but encourage him to do something more Good aligned to better mix with the party.
Agreed on the character although a Sorcerer with the right bloodline can get pretty sinister without crossing the line as well. Although I think you could probably get by with him playing Lawful Evil in a good party as well(although not with a Paladin until you had access to shield thoughts or whatever) still you're in the clear.
Interesting option: Ask your GM if you can start as an Antipaladin?
So yea, he went from that to playing a wizard who didn't believe in the deities and believed that these things named "players" were behind the cosmos and that they are controlled by the "GM." Yea, funny concept to think of, I just wish he'd pick one that wasn't a pain to attempt to role play with because pretty much any character that he would meet and say that to would assume he is as crazy as an asylum's prom
I'm of the opinion that evil characters are all or nothing. Either the entire party is evil or no one is. Anything in between is just a recipe for disaster, or at best bad roleplaying.
The wizard is much better (assuming his alignment isn't evil). Random NPCs thinking your character is a little crazy is not too hard to deal with, and usually comes with the territory for more interesting characters.
I always lay it right out there that evil characters are for advanced groups only. He should table his idea until your group goes through a campaign together at least, and then maybe your group's next party can be made up of anti-heros if everybody wants that.
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