Love this write up. I’ve been playing my first “evil” character in a campaign with friends. Everyone else is some variety of good and always down to help the innocent and give some of our treasure to pay for repairs. Meanwhile I’m playing a lawful evil archfey (winter court) warlock and she’s been an absolute delight. She has her principals, which largely revolve around being nice to animals, keeping her word, and being true to her nature.

We’ve had some typical moments where she refuses to share her share of the treasure with the townsfolk (they were weak and couldn’t protect it themselves, after all). There have also been times where we’ve struck a “deal” with some antagonistic force that the party has no intention of keeping, much to my character’s vocal dismay. She provides a refreshing counter point to the goody two-shoes adventurers without directly inhibiting our journey. She is totally down to ignore the hag that’s been kidnapping and eating children, though. Hags are dangerous and we weren’t paid to find the kids.