In all fairness I should have said "chaotic evil" as that might have given my obviously stupid decisions a bit of context here as most people can probably gather that perma-killing half of your companions just because you can is really bloody stupid.
It certainly is ...
But you know, being
chaotic evil dont mean being complete idiot ... it is certainly possible to create chaotic evil stupid character tho, but no one can forbid you to play ploting smart asshole that will follow his own goals.
For example, i plan to create character that will leave nothing but scorched land, decaying bodies and destruction behind him ... and yes i plan to kill litteraly everyone in that playtrough.
Ofcourse i could do that by simply attacking everyone i meet, that would be chaotic evil stupid way.
But i wish to try chaotic evil smart way, meaning i will lure Minthara and her goblin army to druid groove ... when they leave i get rid of Ragzlin and Gut ... then i use Minthara and her goblin army to destroy both druids and tieflings ... and when that will be done, i get rid of Minthara, since i will not need her anymore.
For the effort that one puts in both ways, the overall gains and losses are not equal.
-(Lawful) Good: Killing the goblins and helping the refugees. You have more companions at your disposal, better loot and more income sources
-(Chaotic) Evil: Helping the goblins and butchering the refugees and druids. You never have to say "I'm sorry" but that's about it.
This conversation will be much smoother, if we actualy notice what the other one say ...
For example here i repeat:
- You have litteraly one companion less in Evil playtrough ... all your other loses was consequences of your own decisions.
- Loot can potentialy be the exactly same for both sides, all you can change is how hard it is for you to obtain, or how long it takes.
On the Evil playthrough I shot for chaotic evil (In hindsight lawful evil would have saved me a LOT of trouble and very likely would have had less of a lethality rate but, I digress.) I went out of my way to be as wicked and malicious as possible forsaking common sense and sensibility for maximum cruelty to the point of killing scratch This playstyle is pretty severely punished and borderline nonviable as I ended up perma-killing several companions (scrolls don't work, the skeleton won't fix em up they are dead and gone for good and all with no get out of death cards) and vendors where the only worthwhile thing I really got out of it was never having to say "I'm sorry" not even to Zelvor.
Yeah ...
You choosed pretty hard way, and it was supposed to be hard ... so i dont quite see the problem here.
