Adventure league alignment

[Whit]

How Would you play Lawful Evil in a group would it cause party conflict.

[OldTrees1]

1) Evil does not want to do Evil. They want to do Something and it happens to be Evil. If giving Cookies to grandma was Evil, Voldemort would not stop murdering just to do a cookie delivery. Voldemort is willing to do Evil as a means to get Power, not get Power as a means to be Evil.

2) How to avoid a party conflict? Don't cause one. Your allies are your allies. They are useful and you care about them. Now whether you care about them like family, or care about them like tools it does not matter. You want to keep your allies happy so they stick around. You want to keep your allies healthy so they stick around.


Summary: Basically give your character a personality and a motivation. Then when AL gives you a goal, be willing to do evil to accomplish your ends but don't cross lines that the other PCs can't forgive. (PS this applies to NE and CE too but AL bans those)

[P. G. Macer]

If my memory serves me, due to AL’s partial abandonment of the faction system, the only way to play a LE character is if you take the Faction Agent background from the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide and choose either the Lords’ Alliance or the Zhentarim as your faction. So, keep that in mind.

As for playing LE, alignment in practice often tells very little about a character. All that Lawful Evil specifically entails in 5e is that LE “creatures take methodically what they want, within the limits of a code of tradition, loyalty, or order” (PHB p. 122). There is some use to your situation, however, in that it means your loyalty could be to your party, and sometimes mean curbing your darker impulses to appease group unity.