Most evil thing you've done

[Marriclay]

Most of the time we play as good aligned characters, regardless of the system at our disposal. That's fine, since almost every game is geared specifically towards that, and those that aren't are generally neutral on that account. But of course, we all devolve into our malicious side sometimes. Every once in a while we indulge in that base instinct of "Rip, slaughter, destroy" and do something that would be enough to have EVIL stamped on your forehead in permanent ink.

I'm here to ask you, Would you tell me some of those times?

I'll lead with an example of my own

Playing a half red dragon Warblade, I wound up getting myself caught up in the politics of a war. Upon finishing a great battle for the safety of the realm our party was from, my character promptly goes up to and gouges the eyes out of the enemy general, who surrendered earlier on in the session, then proceeds to carve "Failure" into his forehead using only his claws, while the general is still very much awake and everybody is looking on in horror. My character was angry because his love interest was cheating on him, and you know what Yoda says about anger.

[Lhurgyof]

Wow, hard to top that... (Not sarcasm! D:)

The first thing that comes to mind is my Shadow Priest Ralek. He ends up gaining the assistance of the greatest shadow giant, Umbra. But in return for these services, I am to free the Warbringer Rajaat. Being relatively ignorant of who that was, I acquired Rajaat's crown and used it to disable all permanent magic effects up to that point, freeing Rajaat.

Who's Rajaat? The person that thought of all races but halflings impure, so created champions to dispose of every race but humans and halflings. (He planned to betray the humans after using them)
He also happens to be the most powerful person in the game, and unkillable.

[Tinydwarfman]

Well there was that time with the babies, and then...

Oh you mean IN GAME!

Sorry, I always play LG characters.

[Mystic Muse]

I'm kind of playing a Paladin right now sooo nothing. I don't plan on falling.

I did one shot a dragon without giving him a chance to surrender. That could be considered evil I guess.

I've learned from that mistake though and I'm giving the red dragon we're currently fighting several chances to turn good.

[Private-Prinny]

Nuking random civilians with magic.

[okpokalypse]

How does ripping off a prisoner's own arm, healing him afterward (potion) and then beating him with his own limb to gain an intimidate bonus stand? The act was prompted by the PCs frustration with the speed and direction of questioning by the more lawful members of the group.

That was pretty recent. The most diabolic thing I'd ever done as a PC was, after saving a town from a mildly tough challenge, there was a rather significant slight towards the PC. So, at the celebration banquet - with all the most important townpeople and leaders around me - I kinda-sorta did a Sudden Expanded Blasphemy (CL 26 - bye bye everyone within 80') and left. Yeah, there was an immediate alignment-shift involved. I didn't care.

[Tedesche]

Wasn't something I did, but a friend of mine told me about a NE beguiler NPC used by the DM in a campaign he was playing in. She had a particular fondness for using her illusions and enchantments to cause people to murder their loved ones. Apparently, in one instance, she was tasked by the BBEG to assassinate an empress. Instead of killing the target directly, she used dominate person to make her poison her lover (a male concubine), and then strangle the two children he gave her in their beds. The trauma of doing the act, being powerless to stop it, and yet having a front row seat while it happened caused her to kill herself by jumping from a 5th story window. Thing was, the beguiler was hiding in the bushes below, and stepped out when she saw the empress jump. ...So the last thing the woman saw before she died was her puppetmaster smiling up at her.

[Lhurgyof]

Wasn't something I did, but a friend of mine told me about a NE beguiler NPC used by the DM in a campaign he was playing in. She had a particular fondness for using her illusions and enchantments to cause people to murder their loved ones. Apparently, in one instance, she was tasked by the BBEG to assassinate an empress. Instead of killing the target directly, she used dominate person to make her poison her lover (a male concubine), and then strangle the two children he gave her in their beds. The trauma of doing the act, being powerless to stop it, and yet having a front row seat while it happened caused her to kill herself by jumping from a 5th story window. Thing was, the beguiler was hiding in the bushes below, and stepped out when she saw the empress jump. ...So the last thing the woman saw before she died was her puppetmaster smiling up at her.

Wow... that's brutal.

[EvilJoe15]

I once had a character blow up a planet just for hell of it.

The day started with my character(An Ur-theurge) preparing a contingent Celerity. Then he put up a persisted Greater Consumptive Field, and walked around a busy marketplace to boost his caster level to near epic. He then cast Major Creation with Eschew Materials. He created Anti-Osmium. That triggered his contingency, and he used that free standard action to cast plane shift to his extraplanar stronghold.

Afterwords my DM asked why my character would do that(He already knew that I'd do just about anything). I said "Just because, that planet wasn't important anyway."

[Knaight]

That's downright epic. The assassin.

[gallagher]

i, an evil character, found a cleric in a rich persons mansion who was torturing someone (professional torturer was my guess). i overwhelmed him, strapped him to a table, tortured him in more gruesome fashions (tiny cuts all over his body, broken fingers and toes, had him breath in misty acid) and then lit a fire underneeth the metal table and left him there gagged tied down and all. then i found the guy he was torturing who was babbling incoherently in the corner, layed him down on his front, and stomped the back of his head with a full PA

[Sir_Elderberry]

We requested that an entire planet be bombed into the ground, preferably using bioweaons or chemical warfare so that the infrastructure would remain intact. The people on the planet were peaceful and had done nothing wrong. We were on that planet to investigate some terrorism and it turned out not to be their fault. But our investigation uncovered that the people here were hybridized with the xenos race that had originally inhabited the planet, and the government was trying to suppress this information. Our characters aren't Evil, we just play Dark Heresy.

[Mastikator]

I was playing a cleric/wizard who worshiped Asmodeus, and my character's dad was too. I don't know the details, but some stranger tried to kill me because he thought I killed his family (I later found out my dad sacrificed them). But I used charm person to make him non hostile. Friendly even. Then I tricked him to think I was on his side, told him to close his eyes and receive a present, and shot him in the face with a crossbow.

[arguskos]

My one truly diabolically evil character was a Necromancer who was (to put it lightly and within board rules) screwed up. He was a masochist, a sadist, a necrophiliac, and had a bizarre obsession with negative energy.

When we entered a new town, he would always slip off on his own for awhile. His actions while he was on his own? His favorite timesink was to sneak into the rooms of peasants or tavern owners, restrain them through magical means, and then use mage hand to torture them to death (dragging a serrated knife back and forth over their limbs/neck/face/whatever; slowly force-feed them poisons; you know, stuff like that). He would then animate their corpses and add them to his private army of undead. Eventually, his activities would be discovered by the locals, and there would be a showdown. Since he had been burying animated undead in town and having them wait just under the surface until his command, he would always get the upper hand on his would-be killers.

There were other things that character did (eventually genocided his own race; slaughtered something like 95% of the world's population; was generally unwholesome; etc) but the peasant torture and town destruction stands out as his favorite pastime really.

[EvilElf]

First started out as a barroom brawl, then it escalated into a full on battle with everyone in the town. By the end of it me and two other party members had killed and burned down a small village. Orphans included in the slaughter.

[Grifthin]

We requested that an entire planet be bombed into the ground, preferably using bioweaons or chemical warfare so that the infrastructure would remain intact. The people on the planet were peaceful and had done nothing wrong. We were on that planet to investigate some terrorism and it turned out not to be their fault. But our investigation uncovered that the people here were hybridized with the xenos race that had originally inhabited the planet, and the government was trying to suppress this information. Our characters aren't Evil, we just play Dark Heresy.

God I love this - Dark heresy - Lawful neutral ftw.

[Lyndworm]

I've never had the chance to do something truly evil.

I played a Chaotic Evil demon once, but he was hit with some effect that reversed his alignment ans nuked his Int before he got to do anything demonic. Then the game died.

I am playing a thri-kreen who tore a live goblin apart with his bare hands. Later in the evening he ate the goblin's legs in a soup. I don't consider this truly evil because he thought that the goblin was dead when he took it apart. He was very upset for about a half second.

[imperialspectre]

In a game I ran, one of the PCs set up an elaborate triple-cross to turn a group of CG rebels over to a (LE, if you're not familiar with Forgotten Realms) Zhentarim fortress they'd been harassing. He then tied the rebel prisoners to stakes, and put the commander of the fortress (whom the PC had deposed earlier for questioning orders he'd given) at a separate stake with combustibles piled around him.

The PC then gave the leader of the rebels (a wizard) a choice: either set the commander on fire and serve him for an arbitrary length of time, or stand there and watch the rebel prisoners shot through with arrows. The worst part? The whole thing was just set up to limit-break the wizard so the PC could get a free servant.

Me? I mostly play good characters, occasionally moving more towards neutral. All of my mass murdering activities are done for the Greater Good. ;)

[AdamSmasher]

I would say the worst thing I ever did was wholesale slaughter most of a village and then burn the entire thing down while the survivors were trapped inside, having barred up their doors and windows upon hearing me coming. As it all burned, one little kid came out of one of the buildings. I took it, broke it, trained it for twenty years to be a killing machine during a timeskip, and used it as a cohort/guardian.

[Dienekes]

I'm designated GM so I don't actually get to play evil PCs. My villains have done plenty atrocious things that are probably not appropriate for this board, but three as a GM that I'm particularly proud of:

Got a PC to murder his father.
Got a PC to assassinate his own son to protect a monster for political reasons.
Got the group to destroy essentially the only chance for real peace the world will have.

[Forever Curious]

Wasn't something I did, but a friend of mine told me about a NE beguiler NPC used by the DM in a campaign he was playing in. She had a particular fondness for using her illusions and enchantments to cause people to murder their loved ones. Apparently, in one instance, she was tasked by the BBEG to assassinate an empress. Instead of killing the target directly, she used dominate person to make her poison her lover (a male concubine), and then strangle the two children he gave her in their beds. The trauma of doing the act, being powerless to stop it, and yet having a front row seat while it happened caused her to kill herself by jumping from a 5th story window. Thing was, the beguiler was hiding in the bushes below, and stepped out when she saw the empress jump. ...So the last thing the woman saw before she died was her puppetmaster smiling up at her.

And this is why I play beguilers.

[Malificus]

I had a character who killed people by dehydration, then used the water to drown their companions.

The closest other person was a mech pilot who mid fight, kept hitting an inferior mech with pittance shots, slowly disabling it, until all that was left was life support, and enough heat sinks, and engine to keep it from blowing up. Then I stepped on it after the fight.

[CockroachTeaParty]

I usually DM, so most of my evil stuff is through NPCs.

An interesting anecdote, however:

In an Eberron game, the PCs were invited to have dinner with the mayor of Greywall, a town of monsters in Droaam. The mayor was a mind flayer. As the party sat down, the mayor brought them some foul-tasting, strange food, then called in his own 'dinner,' a restrained, squealing goblin. His thralls strapped the goblin into a strange 'table' with his head poking through the top.

The mayor then graciously offered to share the experience of eating the goblin's brain telepathically with his guests. To my astonishment, two of the PCs took up the illithid's offer.

The best part: one of the agreeing PCs was a blue, a psionic goblin. I asked the player why his character would agree to something as horrific as 'partaking' in the consumption of a still-living mind of one of his own species. He responded, 'My character seeks knowledge of all kinds for its own sake. He had never experienced eating a sentient mind, so he saw it as an opportunity for new knowledge.'

It was Eberron, so alignment is pretty 'gray.' I considered giving the blue some evil points, but it was a minor enough incident in the grand scheme of things that I let it slide.

[Marriclay]

I usually DM, so most of my evil stuff is through NPCs.

An interesting anecdote, however:

In an Eberron game, the PCs were invited to have dinner with the mayor of Greywall, a town of monsters in Droaam. The mayor was a mind flayer. As the party sat down, the mayor brought them some foul-tasting, strange food, then called in his own 'dinner,' a restrained, squealing goblin. His thralls strapped the goblin into a strange 'table' with his head poking through the top.

The mayor then graciously offered to share the experience of eating the goblin's brain telepathically with his guests. To my astonishment, two of the PCs took up the illithid's offer.

The best part: one of the agreeing PCs was a blue, a psionic goblin. I asked the player why his character would agree to something as horrific as 'partaking' in the consumption of a still-living mind of one of his own species. He responded, 'My character seeks knowledge of all kinds for its own sake. He had never experienced eating a sentient mind, so he saw it as an opportunity for new knowledge.'

It was Eberron, so alignment is pretty 'gray.' I considered giving the blue some evil points, but it was a minor enough incident in the grand scheme of things that I let it slide.

That's... That's really cool. I want to play a Psion now.

[Hague]

Well, I had one character that constructed an elaborate illusion. See, they developed a better version of Trap the Soul that essentially stole a soul and captured it, but at the same time, allowed you to affect the soul as a creature with spell effects. Now the person that this caster trapped was a NG priest of some high stature and was philosophically opposed to the LE wizard (he played him as what you would expect of an arch-conservative jerk-off, very traditional, misogynistic, etc) so in a fit of pique, the wizard constructed a very elaborate illusion using Knowledge (The Planes) and Knowledge (Religion) checks aided by the Aid Another action given by a group of highly paid sage hirelings. Using these checks, the wizard crafted a very elaborate illusion based around the priest's deity and the afterlife that awaited him in Arborea. The illusion basically surrounded making the priest's afterlife into a horrible mockery of what he thought it would be. His "god" shunned him, his loved ones mocked his pathetic state, and even illusions of his progenitors in his church chastised him for his 'failure.'

After allowing the the priest's soul to stew for a while in this fabricated 'Heaven-turned-Hell' the wizard attempted to communicate with the soul through a mocked version of Speak with Dead, and made the priest an offer he couldn't refuse. He said (using a highly boosted Bluff check) that he would bring him back to life as he had a change of heart. In doing so, he managed to convince the priest to turn against his god willingly and resurrected him with a Wish as a new cohort. Since the soul had never actually departed for Arborea, he remembered every bit of what happened to him in his 'afterlife.' Not only did the wizard trick the priest into believing he was damned, his offer made certain that the priest would go down a path that would damn his soul anyway.

Needless to say, I was delighted.

[Tedesche]

Re: the comments on my friend's beguiler anecdote and psionic/mind-affecting powers in general...

Illusion/Enchantment/Telepathy is quite possibly the most vile, horrific set of talents an evil character could ever want for. Torture and other methods of inducing physical pain is bad, but psychological damage is not only arguably worse and longer-lasting, it's also more unsettling to the minds of third-party observers or those who hear tell of such deeds.

A drow fighter/rogue I played in my first campaign had a backstory that involved a sociopathic, psionic half-sister. She came to power by driving her parents insane, causing them to flee their home and go topside, which eventually resulted in them going blind due to sunlight exposure and getting eaten by wolves. She ruled both herself and her kingdom by the Machiavellian notion that it is better to be feared than loved, and became a favorite of Vecna for the elaborately cruel plots and schemes she used to batter the other noble houses into unwilling submission. She preferred taking her time in manipulating her victims; breaking them quickly was too easy and too unsatisfying. Besides, greater devastation always comes from allowing someone the illusion that there is still hope, letting them strive for it, sacrifice things/people they dearly care about to get to it, and then reveal that it was never truly there in the first place. My character (her younger half-sibling) was so terrified of her that even her presence could revert him to the whimpering, sniveling child he was before he managed to flee his homeland.

Ironically, in the endgame, she died because Vecna denied her divine protection when she needed it most. As the DM would explain later, she had managed to consolidate power among the drow so successfully that there was no more political backstabbing and double-crossing—activities that Vecna loved to watch. So, my character's sister had entertained her for a time, but now her goddess was tired of her, and too apathetic to save her from the horde of sewer rats our party's ranger summoned beneath her feet.

Oh, and one last point about physical vs. psychological torture. Physical torture, even when taken to its extreme, only causes the mind to become completely desensitized, effectively cutting itself off from the pain it has come to expect. That, and what psychologists refer to as "learned helplessness," which effectively means they give up on trying to escape further torment. Many people refer to this as "breaking" someone, but in the long view, it's still a far cry from the anguish one can inflict by loosening someone's grip on reality or causing them extreme emotional suffering. That kind of torture—the kind that carves up a person's brain from the inside—can't be escaped from, and doesn't easily heal. Scarification can deform a person to the point where they don't recognize themselves in a mirror...but a deformed mind no longer recognizes anything in its true shape, and often leaves so little of the original person left that self-recognition is no longer even relevant.

[AsteriskAmp]

Not myself, but I Co-DMed an evil campaign that was centered around a unusual party, where the Barbarian had 18 INT, the Cleric was a Necromancer, the Bard played a Harpischord, the Wizard had no knowledges at all, the rogue had the seizures flaw, and the Blackguard couldn't eat anything but human flesh. They did a lot of weird things, but the most "Evil" thing they did was:

The Cleric formed an undead battalion, he began marching along the blackguard to a nearby town, meanwhile, the bard slipped into the town and began warning the townfolk of the invasion, meanwhile the rogue was robbing the houses of the townsfolk which listened to the bard's description of the army and its commanders and his escape plan, which involved running into a nearby town while the men stood to slow down the army advancement, at the other town the Barbarian convinced the townsfolk that the army had an infiltration unit made of disguised zombies, that looked like children and women and that would precede the army, and to stop them, they decided to burn the town upon their entrance, and flank them from behind while women and children fled and acted as a bait.

The undead army enters Town one, and finds little resistance, no burning necesary, children and women flee, Bard helps rogue rob remaining houses, when the refugee flock enters town B, they are treated to a fire, that engulfs the whole village, villagers attack from behind, promptly exterminating them, children and women try to fled, but are met with the fact that the village other exit is barricaded (The Barbarian did it). They die in the fire, meanwhile Barbarian tells the men that there are disguised zombies between them, and kills a random man next to him, chaos ensues and he silently backs away to Town A, where he joins the party in looking Town B kill itself while he recites Poe's poetry. After the fire, they collect values that were left and they march away to the sunrise, ready to repeat the act on another towns.

[jseah]

The easily most evil act I've seen involved a social thing, instead of a personal affair.

Basically, the rapid introduction of magitech weaponry to a semi-feudal society resulted in a massive imbalance of power, with the expected warfare and massacre following shortly.
Then the many sides were played off against each other by continuous sale of better and better weapons. Result? The destruction of an entire society and most of it's people, with massive loss of life, while raking in profits unfound anywhere else.

The best part was that as a character, there was no screwed up psychology or twisted attitudes. Just a cold willingness to earn money within the law (and manipulate the law if possible) and a disavowing of responsibility by saying "it's just good business".

[Corporate M]

I'd list some examples, but when you are a http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...arryingVillain it's really kind of hard to do anything that makes people gasp or give you the ever tasty dirty look.

Bestow curse makes it so much easier though. Oh God the fun I have with bestow curse! It doesn't even have to be particularly powerful. Just use bestow curse to make everyone in town believe they got molested by their parents.

I mean think about that. False memories, and everyone is scarred for life. But it doesn't make a lick of sense. But then it doesn't have too cause it's evil and therefore it's awesome. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

Ofcourse unlike most villains, I can't avoided the http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...serGuidedKarma and the DM just says something like

DM: Well all the molested ones have organized a resistance to kill their parents and now there's civil unrest in the streets.

Corporate M: Ooooh! :)

DM: There is nowhere safe to turn. People are rioting, there's fires, everyone is wondering why all of a sudden all the children have turned on their parents under these horrific lies.

Corporate M: Ooooh! :)

DM: And then they realize it probably has something to do with the shady travlers who just conviently walked into town AND DECIDED TO MESS WITH EVERYBODY'S HEAD BECAUSE THEY'RE JERKS.

DM: And by they I mean you. So while there is indeed rioting and anarchy, the townguard would like to have a word with you.

Corporate M: Oh poopy.


The best evil is the subtle kind. The one involving doing something that'll technically keep you a law abiding citizen, or just harrassing someone in particular. But then why bother at all? I want evulz! (lulz+evil) I want to be the inspiration for a Tenacious D video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOtVc_zB1h0

My favorite song. lol!

[mikej]

I tend to play Nuetral characters a lot, but I had one that was Chaotic Evil. Only downside was that I was so used to playing Nuetral that I probally didn't utilize the Chaotic Evil alignment to the fullest.

If however you count outside of the in-game world. I have done a few evil things as the player. Like my last campaign was in.

Step 1: Play Druid
Step 2: Select Fleshraker, Dinosaur