Sacred_Lamb
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IRL begs to differ, Epstein Island and other such things require social interaction and camaraderie. The Phantom Trope from the anime HxH do evil shit together but their also good friends that care about each other. People tend to forget that villains are also people because they're too fixated on their actions alone. Remember, Hitler loved dogs so much that he made an animal rights law, which is the modern animal rights law of today is based on, Saddam Hussein loved romance novels and books and wanted to direct some. Being evil doesn't stop you from being social or a person. If that were the case, a lot of serial killers who seduce chicks would never exist. Not to mention Bonnie and Clyde.The problem with evil in RPGs is that evil actions are, by definition, anti-social and tend to make things worse. And since RPGs are on a personal scale, it's hard to really create compelling content that one can call 'evil' without diving into real-world nastiness that a lot of people deal with. So "stab a guy because you can" or "be a random asshole" tends to be the norm, because those are power fantasies. Any other kind of evil would dive straight into edge lord territory, or just be unappealing. Nobody wants to roleplay an abusive parent or a serial kiddy diddler. Not that the CoC 2 devs are any good at writing even the basic kind of evil you commonly see, but this is one case where I don't blame them for not doing well.
Most Devs just don't get it because a lot ppl are used to labeling monstrous actions as "other" or demonizing them. They forget that even the Devil has friends.