The reason to take the evil path, should be a role-playing one.. But I do agree as far as that the evil path needs work. As it exists currently, it is too punishing on the player, since you lose access to all the merchants in the area, so you can't buy or sell stuff anymore. if you want to roleplay a cleric of Bhaal, who uses murder as a form of piety, and decide to kill the companions instead of recruit them, you cut yourself out of a tremendous amount of early game xp, and gimp yourself essentially.
That is why the evil path sucks in my opinion. Roleplay wise, its fine. game-play wise, it's not worth what you sacrifice. And what you sacrifice, makes the game less fun.
Is there another role to play than "I want to play an evil character" to side with the evil forces ?
I really tried, but I cannot think about ANY other reasons to side with Minthara at this point of the story.
You just heard a bit about the absolute and heared a bit (mostly in the goblins camp) about a cult with goblins and "true souls" leading them... you just don't know at all why you're not turning into a mindflayer, and the only thing Minthara suggest is that you become her minion.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not trying to say the evil path is well written or that it doesn't suck. But role-play wise, a person can find a reason to go the evil route.
In my last play-through, I played a Drow that was a Draconic sorcerer, his ancestor being a red dragon. Red dragons are greedy and power hungry beings, and my character unfortunately inherited these traits too, and his noble upbringing did nothing but nurture these traits. He grew up in a noble family, that took just as much Pride in being Drow, as they did having Dragon blood. His noble upbringing taught him how to be a diplomat, taught him how to tell people what they wanted to hear, taught him how to create a power-base essentially. My character will recruit any and all companions, he will help people, he will let a vampire spawn feed on him, he will use the tadpole power( after seeing what it can do), he will save Shadow-heart, he will say anything, he will kill an entire settlement or save an entire settlement, he will serve some unseen God, if it means he gains more power or influence. it's reckless and probably stupid, but that is my character. he's so consumed with greed and power, he is willingly do do ANYTHING for it. Just like a Red dragon, who tends to be reckless.
