I loaded up wow today, for the first time in ages, I stared at the character screen for a bit... then I stared at the character creation screen for a while, then I loaded petopia and had a browse! And then then it all became... murky, I closed wow, mumbled incoherently about the 3.1 patch downloader coming on, then loaded wowmodelviewer and had a browse on that...
I think I want to be... well... evil, I've never really done it before, all of my characters for RP have been fairly noble, if from their own races viewpoint. I've never roleplayed someone whose spitefull, mean-spirited callous and cruel, and I think I'm missing out. I'm a kind person in real life, I help people, I enjoy it, perhaps I need to make myself an avatar of cruelty anddestruction before I go insane?
The thing is I'm not very good at being nasty, about the most evil thing I'll ever do to people is to ignore them, and thats not really mean... its borderline rude!
I'm kind of stumped for an idea though, I've had a few ideas for potential pets that all look quite mean-spirited, but as for what race to be I'm not sure, probably my favourite choice would be trolls, they used to be very evil (the non-horde ones still are) practicing voodoo, canabalism and worshoping the loa gods who are generally unpleasent.
Anyway I'm just rambling to myself really, only this time I wrote it on my blog... again, you must all think I'm crazy, I do, and so does the lepricorn king, although I don't think he counts, he's an illegal immegrant afterall!
Saturday, 11 April 2009
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i know what you mean i try to make evil personas and still end up being kind and helpful.
You know, very rarely, if ever, do you see the mean "ugly" female troll. She's got blood red eyes and a death of a stare of hatred on her face. That and a black widow pet would definitely set a spiteful mood setting.
:)
Right now playing an undead, nothing seems more evil than them. Especially with that laugh they have.
/shudders
Scary!
I have a rather mean blood elf. From her point of view, she's just .. focused. But anyone sane would call it obliviously selfish.
The biggest problem I have playing her is with random passers by who don't know that I'm roleplaying. I always end up sending them OOC tells explaining that I don't actually mean to be mean, it's just the character. Because I can't handle being mean. :>
But that's not the problem. The problem is that after getting my OOC tell, a goodly number of people expect me to stop the public roleplaying of mean and be nice to them publicly. And they get really, really confused and upset when my public chat and my OOC tells (for instance, answering their questions about quests) are at odds.
It would be easier if I was just mean.
The most fun kind of evil character, to my mind, is the one that doesn't appear evil on the surface. So myself, I'd probably go with a blood elf whose let her addiction take over and have far too much fun being whiny, pushy, and Viper Sting-ing everything I met. Probably with a nice heroic-looking white lion as my spoiled, precious, and overly-vicious pet.
Evil doesn't necessarily mean grumpy, though. My husband played an evil monk in out D&D games for a while, and he was the most pleasant, cheerful person you could hope to meet. He just he just thought torture was a fun and useful way of gaining information, took whatever he wanted and left behind a trail of snapped necks and well-hidden bodies, and worshiped Hextor rather obsessively. All this, with a paladin in the party....good times.
I guess it depends on what you consider an evil character, but if you're a good person, you might have trouble acting evil towards other people (which is what 'being a good person' means:)
I don't want to get too philosophical, but consider that every human being does what it thinks is the right choice. If you consider somebody evil, that only means that you don't approve of their reasoning.
In other words, the evil character you create must have a reasonable (in his view) motivation and system of values. Your character wants justice.
An easy way to get there is to add some childhood abuse, prolonged imprisonment, or mental disease. Your character is in pain, other people are guilty of that pain, and he wants them to suffer.
I love roleplaying evil characters in RPGs where there's across the board roleplaying going on. WoW is not one of those games.
The most fun I've had RPing an evil character was back in NWN, I had a rogue who fully immersed himself amongst the good guys but schemed and manipulated, deceived and lied, stole and murdered, all under the nose of his "allies". It was great.
You can't really do this in WoW, since to pull it off you really need to fool other players, all whom are also RPing.
You can still RP evil in WoW, it just has to be the more blatant kind. For a Hunter, I'd borrow from the D&D lore regarding the Malarites, worshippers of a violent nature god. Revel in the bloodsport aspect of the class, and for that, a Troll would be a great choice. Get a really savage pet like a Wolf or Hyaena and go kill the DEHTA people in the Tundra.
Well, Orc would be a good choice to , plus the pet damage racial . yummy. Most Orcs are savage and bloodthursty
If you ever need advice on being evil, just come talk to me. It's, you know, sort of what I do. ;-)
I think the troll is the best idea, the whole tribal flesh-eating, head shrinking troll is forced into a (fairly) noble society. That and you don't see enough trolls of any kind, but females especially, and females with the mean face, you might as well roll a female dwarf!
I like Noah's idea of being anti DEHTA, a troll who revels in the hunt, in the killing and slaughtering, perhaps Rping abusing her pet and forcing it to obey.
I just need an excuse to reach out and connect with my inner bitch!
[quote]perhaps Rping abusing her pet and forcing it to obey.[/quote]
Hey now! I never advocated going *that far*! I like playing evil but I could never RP the abuse of a pet *hugs his kitties*
That said, the Northrend Wolf models have that perfect scrawny, mangy mean look that would compliment that sort of character in a great way.
The other option is for her to consider her pet to be an avatar of her god... that might be a better idea, not mistreating her pet... worshiping it!
That could be interesting. The character may come off as quite a loon in mixed company, which may be fun.
Personally, bringing aspects of divinity on that scale seems risky. Perhaps the pet is not an avatar but a facet of her god, harbouring some spark of the divine (eg pet was sent by god to help you revel in the blood and hunt).
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