I almost always play an evil character who has some violence/anger issues. I just think it is so much fun to do stuff that you can't in real life. Like when someone says something to piss you off you kill them/Fus Ro Dah them/Slam them (lol).

I find it really hard to not kill an innocent NPC if the perfect opportunity arises.

IE: I am walking in the Grey Quarter and drunky mcgee (don't know his name but he is a Nord beggar) is walking alone in the dark I look around and what do you know nobody around. So I put my weapons away, sneak up behind him, and body slam him head first onto the stairs HA!. See its so much fun.

I made this topic because I notice a lot of people seem to play as 'good'/typical heroish characters.

So why do you play 'good' or 'evil' or maybe somewhere in the middle?

When I happen to be evil, I always end up reloading from when I was good.

Neither. My characters are consistently pragmatic and don't have time for philosophical nonsense.

I guess I 'm always "good". Its just not that fun for me to do "evil" stuff.

I tried just "letting loose" once, and killing everyone in a town. When I did I didn't really get anything out of it. I just felt.. Ya know.. Empty inside.

Its simply not for me.

Looking back, most of the characters I made were rather neutral, and most of those would be classified 'True Neutral'. I let a character progress and develop and try to make them all different, but so far in the past I have only played one character who would kill for fun. I'm not a huge fan of absolute goody-two-shoes characters, either.

I am a good character. I just don't have it in me to be "evil"

Well i help people in towns but god help any i find in the scrub

Nobody messes with Rihade. He's good overall, but when someone really disrespects him, he drills a hole in their head with an arrow.

My character is intrincated in that point.
He respect the law in most cases, and like strong autority (he was raised on House Redoran )
But also cant forget the Nord riders who attacked Redoran′s lands nor the war waged by the Argonians in the Morrowind′s most crytical time.
So, he respect the "civilized" nords in most cases, but the belligerant ones are violently killed.
Also if I find stormcloacks wandering the woods, I kill them too.
Also If I find any kind of Argonian lost or wandering the roads with no witnesses, I kill them.
So you can say he is Lawful Evil ? Something like that.

Ya I often have little rules such as yours. Like the one I am playing right now will only kill random NPCs if they really are rude.

But I have had some characters who will kill given any opportunity (DB assassin/Vampire).

Never even once played a 'good' character. I just don't get it, so much more fun being evil.

Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the Thu'um.

I always play as a Redoran Dunmer ... I try to follow this rules as I play
"House Redoran prizes the virtues of duty, gravity, and piety. Duty is to one's own honor and to one's family and clan. Gravity is the essential seriousness of life. Life is hard, and events must be judged, endured, and reflected upon with due care and earnestness. Piety is respect for the gods and the virtues they represent. A light, careless life is not worth living."
But as you may know, it mostly applies just for other dunmers or house members. F**k the others

Chaotic Good.

Well, right now my character is a vigilante. Maybe more of a necessary evil? I don't know. He will search out immorality and will exterminate them. (e.g. Sven/Faedenal, Dark brotherhood targets, those who perform the black sacrament, beggars, thieves, bandits, hired thugs, mercenaries, Altmer, cultists - either Aedric or Daedric, nobles)

My main character is good but he does enjoy stealing.

So you killed the poor Aventus?

Can't. I'm on the Xbox (I know, I know. I hate it too, but my PC is a piece of [censored]) and I can't mod the game to allow me to kill him.

A shame, he deserve to die

I hope you get it on pc someday.

I don't play insane or megalomaniacal characters, or characters with impulse control or anger management problems. So my characters don't randomly kill people just for laughs, or because they piss me off, or because I feel like making Riverwood a ghost town, or whatever.

I do play characters that have goals and some of those characters are willing to achieve those goals by any means necessary. So they are willing to lie, steal, and kill without compunction if that's necessary to get them to their goal.

It all depends on the character; some of my characters have more limits, depending on how I'm roleplaying them.

I'm almost always playing a 'good' character, and even when I'm doing 'bad guy' stuff like joining
the Dark Brotherhood, the Thieve's Guild or the Volkihar Vampires, I almost always twist my character's
story so that he's doing it for the right, however obscured, reasons.

The main reason for doing this, is mostly because I like being the kind hearted, but brave hero.
But another reason is that Bethesda didn't really make this game so that you could be evil all of the time.
You have to be nice and generous to take up most of the misc quests, like fetching Noster Eagle-Eye's old
helmet from a cave, or retrieving Roggi Knot-Bear's family shield.

You still can keep the shield and kill the family

The character I'm playing with, my first, y'know how that goes, is more practical than he is good or evil. He does what he feels is right, which can fall into either or.
Sometimes things work out for the best, sometimes it all falls to [censored].

The characters I play are usually good but sometimes they have to do evil things to get stuff done.

I know. Unfortunately I did get it for PC last November, but my computer couldn't run it. Had to settle with the Xbox version. I'm working on saving up for a new computer, so hopefully it'll work out soon

I guess I'm usually Neutral Evil.

My characters go out looking for power, and take it where they can.

If the game would let me put a sword in Ulfric's guts and take the crown I would in a heartbeat, because a king who doesn't lead his own armies and fight his own battles doesn't usually stay king for long.

Slaughtering an entire village is pointless, unless I need to sate my wolfish bloodlust because I'm stuck so full of arrows I'm a were-pincushion and it is me or them.

And when I'm not living off the land or murdering bandits in their sleep, I find random trinkets from across Skyrim because it builds up good will among the people, and until recently I had to live among them. I don't steal from them (often). I don't walk into town and start killing because I can. I take my dragon fights out into the country so people don't get hurt. I feed the local economy by selling all the trinkets I don't need to the local merchants.

I like the people of Skyrim, I'm just a little disappointed that I can't ascend to a throne that should be mine and put all the slackers who lounge about town to work in the mines and the fields.
Ulfric may have a decent chunk of the Stormcloaks loyal to him but I have, a bunch of werewolves, an ancient vampire clan, a college full of mages, master spies and thieves, ruthless assassins, two legendary dragons at my beck and call (probably three cause I suspect I could get Paarthurnax down off the mountain), mastery of the Thu'um, the backing of the Nine and the Daedra, and all of my personal strengths.

I sided with Ulfric over Tulius just because it would be easier to take power from Ulfric than Tulius if I could actually do that.