One of my personal favorite characters is an oath of vengeance paladin that wants to cleansed the world of evil via killing everyone with the evil alignment. Not everyone cares for the concept though
Neutral alignment is a thing. As is good aligned characters being tricked into thinking the party is evil. There is also the idea of an evil character in a position of authority. Or a foreign society that has different moral values. Really there are plenty of ways to crate nuanced moral ambiguity
Depends on the story of you are in I suppose. In the one I used the character for the villains were demon aligned cultist, so the controversy was over my character killing surrendering enemies.
You can have some real fun messing with spirit of justice type characters by introducing them to shades of grey NPCs that push their characters philosophy to the limit. Brutal kings whose extreme methods are the only ones stopping bloody civil wars, a poor villager relying on a demonic patron to prevent their village from starving after a bad harvest, or someone sent insane by an accident who can’t grasp that their actions are evil.
21
u/[deleted] Mar 25 '21
One of my personal favorite characters is an oath of vengeance paladin that wants to cleansed the world of evil via killing everyone with the evil alignment. Not everyone cares for the concept though