I think your idea of what 'evil' is, is rather narrow and superficial...very cartoony.. Evil isn't about murdering people just because they're good and you don't like good. That would maybe be the case for a small group of people.. but not most.
People go down the path of 'evil' because it is enticing: there's promise of power, of riches, of getting to your goals faster..... everyone else be damned.
It is about manipulating betraying, backstabbing, deceiving , using and abusing people, be they good or evil, be they your best friend or foe so long as there is something to be gained.
It is about about cooperating with people so long as it furthers YOUR goal.
Or if you want a pragmatic character, it is about being ruthless, making the hard decision, like..idk killing a small group of innocent people to save the many.
D&D definitely also contain the kind of evil that murder good people just because they're good, but then we're talking like Cyricists and Malar worshippers and generally the kind of people (and typically more monsters than people) that are Philosophically Evil and committed to the cause of Evil as an objective philosophy. I think that's outside of the scope of the game
Its directly in the scope of every game hat has alignment system a system that has good and bad actions. A game that plays with the DnD setting of hell and heavens, selling your soul to devils.
Is a Lord who has serves and works then hard of fields to get food for a harsh winter good or evile?
Are the serves who reble good or bad?
Its all relative depending ony our situation, thing BG1 there was no good or evile in the first place. Your main enemy didnt even wanted to take over all the realms and murder hobo every life being in sight.
In BG2 even your main adversary didn't want to murder hobo everything just stay alive for past failings.
But here we are in BG 3 with most retarded stupid story trope ever. All live is in danger and you are the only one who can prevent the doom of all dooms huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuuh
Ebile squid aliens will devour all brains and less evile squid worms want to build a giant army and take over the surface world.
I just cant.
