Dark Campaign

[Volar the Healer]

[Jedi Skyler]

Why watch the TV, when we can RP Star Wars?!

[Volar the Healer]

You're preaching to the choir, brother!
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Know Jesus, Know Peace.
No Jesus, No Peace

[Jedi Skyler]

But preach it I will! 8)

[Jedi Skyler]

But preach it I will! 8) Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

[KageRyu]

The problem with evil campaigns, or villain campaigns, or Dark Lord of the sith campaigns (what have you) in ANY game setting (and I have run a lot of games over the last 17 years) is that it always degenerates. Always. At some point, if not on the first adventure, the players begin to revel so much in not being bound by any tenets of morality, and start a major carnage spree. Killing indiscriminately, looting, pillaging, plundering, and raping without cause or reson. There is no focus, no plot, no real advancment, the players just want to blow stuff up, then complain when they really aren't getting anywhere. Worse than that, at some point, interaction among the group is brought down to the principle of who's got the bigger blaster... that is, one character starts bullying the others by threats or actions of force because he has either surpassed them in skill and weapons, or has some edge he is proud of. Then you start having infighting among players, then there's constant character death, then revenge character death, and it just keeps falling into this mindlessly annoying spiral until either the group disbands, or the GM says "ENOUGH!". Then, even when switching to a new campaign, there are often still ill feelings between players

This sort of gaming adventure is no fun at all. I have sworn I myself would never run another villain game again.
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"There's a set way to gain new Force Points and it represents a very nice system, where you're rewarded for heroism, not for being a poor conductor to electricity." ~Jachra

[Chabit Rane]

Do it. Run a 'evil' setting. But here is a few suggestions.

1) Make it an evil vs. evil campaign.
2) Inform them that they will be resonsible for their own actions.
3) And that this game has no influence on any other game in the same setting.

(I've done this before)

You may be suprised by the results, I know I was.

My group did more good (for less) than bad. And they only got stuff off of the bad guys. They did not get rewards or cash from "people needing help". More than half the time they did not even search bodies for cash, weapons and stuff. It was a D&D game.

I feel that my players thought they had more options than they had before. If you look back at what they did, you would have called the theif of the party a paladin.

And it will make your players happy, remember its in the presentation of the package that is different not the stories.

If you go with it, remember that now the good guys are hunting them too.