| Hi, Well for starters part of the picking good or evil is also to be lawful or chaotic. On that you could pick. Lawful meant you could only do purely good things, chaotic meant that you could do, well shall I say, more grey things. Usually when a player would want to pick evil, it had different ramifications that being an 'evil witch'. Usually they were thieves or fighters, and wanted to do bad things to other players. Which I would not allow. We had to be a team. Some people would allow player to attack fellow players, but those campaigns would be short lived. A chaotic good thief could use his skills to steal a key that would open a door to alot of treasure, but an evil thief would use it to try and open the door and keep it all to themselves. Some Dungeon Masters would take pleasure in rooking other players, but not me. Those are the kind of Dungeon Masters that give the game a bad name. For us (and most D&D players), we were living some of the epic adventures that we read about. Yip, yip, yahoo! For others, they would do stuff that was not good. But they usually didn't play D&D for long, and would move to some of the darker games that were not good. (Although most of these kinds of players never played D&D. They would usually start with the darker games. But most people lump them all into one category and generically call them all Dungeons and Dragons)
The use of the word 'witch' doesn't have much to do with the game of D&D. Gandolf isn't a witch. That is why I only talk about the game of D&D. If a person hasn't played it, such distinctions are lost. That's why I was talking about conscience in my previous post. To play an Elven Wizard/Warrior and save the world form an Evil Warlord is different than being a witch as most people think of it. But if someone's conscience is bugging them, then they shouldn't play. For some people, the wizard in D&D and witch in real life aren't separable. And that's O.K.
P.s. Real 'warlocks' look at Gandolf like he's some kind of wanna be, a little 2 year old wuss, a circus clown. But most people don't know this. |