> , but after entering Fort Joy and siding with the thugs against the elf and Ifan, the villain tag was awarded as soon as combat started. If I tried a custom character, it may have triggered earlier, with an extra companion to kill.

I've definitely done that in past though by then I normally have the tag by then,on the whole I don't go around murdering NPCs willy nilly.I'll see if I can get the tag to trigger again though..