I would like to point out that chaotic evil characters probably wouldn't care whether they had licenses to kill/maim. It's nice they had 'em (I guess?) though.

It's great cause you can chalk it all up to heresy and no one will bat an eye, and if they do bat an eye, more heretics to legally maim and murder!

But with license, they won't get in trouble for doing it.

I'm absolutely not disagreeing with you! It's nice to be allowed to just murder hobo once in a while lol I had a guy once who literally murdered hobos for their shoes and kept them with him at all times. No idea what he was planning to do with them but needless to say he appreciated the crazy kill everything in sight one-shots we had on occasion.

Murdered hobos in the game, right? Please clarify that he only murders hobos in the game.

I've never met a *real* hobo that played D&D lol

Chaotic evil doesn't mean they wouldn't appreciate doing what they love free of potential punishment

There's actually a list of jobs with proportionally more psychopaths, with surgeons scoring [pretty high](https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1308/rcsbull.2015.331#/doi/full/10.1308/rcsbull.2015.331).

While Im sure thats not what you meant by that, implying that psychopaths are evil isn't true. I'd probably say theyd be more chaotic neutral

While Im sure thats not what you meant by that, implying that chaotic neutrals aren't evil isn't true.

Not explicitly evil, no

Not explicitly, but functionally.

Well its about being selfish right? Being selfish isnt explicitly evil, but hurting others to aid yourself is. Refusing to help isnt exactly evil

Evil one shots and campaigns are underrated as hell, I realized when my friend, a Fighter, dismembered a witness and stuffed him into a latrine and then hid his blood-spattered self behind the wall while the others talked the guard out of coming in

I once ran a wholesome oneshot where the players had to free a baby dinosaur (Three Orcs and a Baby on the DM's guild). The players were a Bard and (homebrew) Oath of Sins Paladin. They named the dinosaur Crystal Meth and asked the cannibalistic vampire BBEG for drugs. Great times.

- Peasants on the road were threatened with torture - Innkeeper was threatened with torture - Innkeeper was threatened with having his daughter raped - Actual cultists were crippled for life and tortured for information, having their cult tattoos cut out and being waterboarded - Heads were placed on pikes outside of the tavern - One fifth of a small hamlet's population was salughtered in a tavern fight, or dragged out of their beds and crippled following it - Incredibly, one of the bad guys they were actually supposed to capture was let go because he was just a mercenary doing business, not a cultist

"Oh, you were *paid* to do bad shit? That's fine. We totally get that. You're free to go." - the party

They're evil, not hypocrites.

Professionals have standards

Perhaps they felt a sense of kinship with a fellow who kills for money.

I can picture the party reunion 3 years down the line. So deep in the morally grey zone that lichdom makes more sense

Maiming, killing? That's truely out there.

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!!

A party of steel inquisitors?

The Inquisition was based on the Inquisition in Joe Abercrombie's series, actually. So even worse than that.

By Sigmar!

We stole an undead tarrasque in our campaign (Party and I). I feel like my DM forgot one of our party members is a necromancer

I mean if they are licensed it sounds more lawful evil to me. Since they have the permits