Saving Throes # 57 - Around the Campfire: Playing Evil Characters

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Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.
The Around the Campfire segment returns this week with stories of the times I have decided to try playing a character of evil alignment. The idea of playing an evil character may make some cringe due to bad and annoying past experiences, but I have learned to take a much more layered and nuanced approach to what it means to have an evil alignment. This does not force one into playing a caricature of a villain, but can instead lead to interesting role playing encounters in morally grey situations with the right group. In this episode I give my own guideline as to how I have approached it any time I opted to play an evil aligned character, as well as plenty of examples over the years of different characters I played and my experience, and how it helped me to grow and mature as a player. Tune in to hear if these games I played turned into a disaster or led to interesting and memorable games.

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