Question from a GM about to run Blood Lords

[MrWinter]

So, I intend to run the Blood Lords camping for the first time in January. I haven't played it myself, and none of the people I know have either. The reason I'm creating this post is that I have a question about a rule I wanted to put into effect for the players when they make their PC, and I want to know if it'll be a problem.

The main rule I'm worried about is that all players are restricted to only Neutral or Good alignment. My thought behind this is that I want the players to have to RP their PCs getting dealing with a largely Lawful Evil environment, and having to figure out how they'll react to it. What I want to know is if the Blood Lords AP is even compatible with this idea?

I'm going to need to find another 3-4 players to fill out the group of 5 I'm aiming for, and I want to get my head around what the camping will look like before I start looking.

Any help with this is welcome.

[PossibleCabbage]

Blood Lords is more of a Lawful AP than an Evil one, it just is set in a Lawful Evil place. So Lawful Neutral characters are kind of ideal. There's a certain flavor of Lawful Good, specifically "yes, I understand that Geb is a truly messed up place, but there are actual decent people who live here and we do better by them in trying to protect them and fix the place than we do by blowing it all up, since the 'thousand year old vampires' are going to do better than common folk if Geb collapses into anarchy" True Neutral is also totally fine.

CN, NG, and CG are bad choices for this AP but there's no problem with having the entire party share a single alignment. We don't have any evil characters in our Blood Lords party.

[keftiu]

I would echo that this AP is more hostile to Chaotic characters than Good ones. The important thing is that you're willing to work to serve and protect the state.

[MrWinter]

PossibleCabbage wrote:

Blood Lords is more of a Lawful AP than an Evil one, it just is set in a Lawful Evil place. So Lawful Neutral characters are kind of ideal. There's a certain flavor of Lawful Good, specifically "yes, I understand that Geb is a truly messed up place, but there are actual decent people who live here and we do better by them in trying to protect them and fix the place than we do by blowing it all up, since the 'thousand year old vampires' are going to do better than common folk if Geb collapses into anarchy" True Neutral is also totally fine.

CN, NG, and CG are bad choices for this AP but there's no problem with having the entire party share a single alignment. We don't have any evil characters in our Blood Lords party.

Thank you for replying to this so quickly, I'm trying to get a feel for it all and this helped a good deal.