The Writer's Lab

Here’s another interesting post from Eve over at the Garden of Eden.

Conflict is the key to making roleplay fun, engaging, exciting, interesting, and real. This is true no matter what your playstyle is. And villains, and the conflict they inspire, are necessary for roleplaying.

She goes on to expand on three points she feels are key to developing and playing/writing a good villain type character;

• The interest and time to build a three-dimensional “dark” character.
• Players of villains need the ability to separate In Character and Out of Character.
• The commitment and understanding to avoid god-moding and steam-rolling.

The Necessity of Villany [Live in the Garden of Eden]