D&D first time player, any advice? *Shifting to Pathfinder

So my personal opinion is that evil games are quite difficult to DM because everyone views what "evil" is differently. Personally, I've always believed evil = power because power = corruption.

What alignment is the rest of your party? Is this an all-evil campaign? If you're the only evil character in a group of do-gooders then it's easy to come off as an a-hole in situations that would make the plot advance. Pick and choose your moments to get the most impact out of your decisions. I highly recommend not getting in any kind of fights with your allies.

When you look at iconic bad guys throughout movie history, their actions are always more than just "murder because i'm bad". They murder to show their power. Look at Vader, the Joker, Lex Luthor for examples. There always is an end game with everything they do. When Vader had someone question him, he force chokes him in front of everyone to flex his power and position. That's evil. That's power. They rely on hench men who do dirty work and operate more in the shadows unless absolutely necessary. You'd do well to have evil mini-goals to try to accomplish in an effort to avoid inner-party conflict.

If you're all evil just remember being evil is more than just being murderhobos. It's about power, conquering and crushing the weak. It isn't "LOL DIE IM EVIL YOU BAR WENCH" which it often ends up devolving into and just makes the game kinda.. pointless?

Which edition are you playing and what level?

Anyways, just my 2 cents as a DM for the last ~10 years.

Isn’t neutral evil basically completely crazy?

In 5e be sure you have all the conditions to sneak attack memorized and every time your turn is coming up you should be looking around to find ways to sneak attack. As a rogue it will forever be what makes you the top DPS or meh DPS.

Remember, you can sneak attack once per turn. This means you can also sneak attack on opportunity attacks even if you already used a sneak attack on your own turn.

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Official ruling from the creators of D&D because this was a point of contention.

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Isn’t neutral evil completely crazy?

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No, that’s chaotic neutral. Neutral evil is best conceptualized by comparing it to lawful and chaotic evil. A lawful evil character has a code that he lives by - it just happens to be a bad code. Maybe he’s a militaristic tyrant. Maybe he is a strict follower of an evil god. Either way, he wants and respects structure, but his intentions are evil. You can cut a deal with a LE character and reasonably expect him to carry out his part of it. Chaotic evil, on the other hand, has no respect for structure and actively works to destroy it. Anarchy is the goal. You cannot trust a CE character, period. They will lie, cheat, and steal even if there isn’t a good reason to, simply to sow chaos and discord.

Neutral evil falls between those two extremes. NE characters will use and abide by laws and structures, if their use furthers their own goals, or they are just as happy to go around them or to work to destroy them. Whatever serves the NE character’s own selfish purposes is all that matters.

@ Scruffy - I can help you.

At the beginning of the player's handbook is step by step how to make a character. Makes it pretty simple.

I think Giant in the Playground does decent 5e guides..To save a lot of typing..I have linked you one