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** Lego adaptation games like giving you at least one way to play as evil characters; ''VideoGame/LegoHarryPotter'' has Dark magic objects scattered throughout levels that require Dark wizards to handle (although in the first game, this included [[ReverseMole Snape]]) and a bonus level where you play as Voldemort and kill Harry's parents.

* Harebrained Schemes' ''VideoGame/{{Battletech}}'' allows the PlayerCharacter's mercenary company to take jobs from a multitude of Inner Sphere and Periphery factions during the story mode... But you are never given the option to take jobs from or side with the Aurigan Directorate, [[spoiler:or the Taurian Concordat as long as they're backing the Directorate]], and the main campaign always involves supporting Kamea in overthrowing the Directorate. The game justifies this in that your company were hired as her CadreOfForeignBodyguards, and thanks to her backers in the Magistracy of Canopus Kamea owns your company's not-insignificant debts to a variety of "break your kneecaps"-style Periphery banking institutions.

** Splatbooks for ''TabletopGame/{{Forgotten Realms}}'' discourage the playing of evil-aligned characters and/or warn than options present for such ones are strictly for {{NPC}} use only.

** Splatbooks for ''TabletopGame/{{ForgottenRealms}}'' discourage the playing of evil-aligned characters and/or warn than options present for such ones are strictly for [=NPCs=].

*** PlayerCharacters may never possess poison thorns (which are used as blowgun darts), because poison use is associated with evil.

** 2nd Edition Advanced D&D ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} setting

*** ''A Guide to the Astral Plane'' supplement. Githyanki always have an Evil CharacterAlignment. If a Dungeon Master allows a PlayerCharacter to play a githyanki, they're advised to have the character be a non-Evil outcast/pariah/renegade githyanki. This is the case even though PlayerCharacters may be of Evil alignment if they play members of races allowed under the main rules, such as dwarves or elves.

** 2nd Edition Advanced D&D

*** A ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' article explained that there was an editorial mandate that all modules for the game, no exceptions, had to be about heroic adventurers.
** The fifth edition lists the good and neutral deities up front in the character creation section, while setting the evil gods firmly in the 'know your enemy' part of the book. This, of course, has no effect on some players and [=DMs=], who create all-evil campaigns frequently and with panache.
*** 5th edition also lists the Oathbreaker subclass for Paladin and Death domain subclass for Clerics in the Dungeon Master's Guide as potential classes for villains, instead of the Player's Handbook. Even then, the book notes that [=DMs=] can allow their player to chose from them (something most do). Xanathar's Guide mostly averts this, since it lists the evil (or at least [[WellIntentionedExtremist brutally lawful]]) Oath of Conquest.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' follows ''Fates'' in the GreyAndGreyMorality aspect: while the Blue Lions (and, to an extent, the Golden Deer) have the feel of the classical fantasy heroes and their routes, Azure Moon[=/=]Verdant Wind, are in the vein of the usual "heroes retaking their realm from an invading conquering empire" basic plot, [[AntiVillain many]] [[NobleDemon sympathetic]] [[JustFollowingOrders Adrestian]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist characters]] are killed in the process -- including the former Black Eagles team, the heroes' fellow students in the academy, unless you recruited some of them. Meanwhile, the Black Eagles turn out to be pretty decent and well-meaning, including their leader -- the person that, upon becoming the leader of the empire, starts the aforementioned war of conquest, only to reunite the land, set it free from an AncientConspiracy behind the scenes and lead everyone into an age of progress and enlightenment. Surely, the player can join [[SheIsTheKing her]] and assist in making her dreams real... or not, if they find [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans her ways]] to be too extreme. [[spoiler:And either way, [[TheManBehindTheMan the Agarthans]] are defeated, either during the campaign or post-victory. Unlike ''Fates'' though, there isn't a ''Revelations''-style GoldenEnding to reconcile everyone against a shared enemy.]]

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' follows ''Fates'' in the GreyAndGreyMorality aspect: while the Blue Lions (and, to an extent, the Golden Deer) have the feel of the classical fantasy heroes and their routes, Azure Moon[=/=]Verdant Wind, are in the vein of the usual "heroes retaking their realm from an invading conquering empire" basic plot, [[AntiVillain many]] [[NobleDemon sympathetic]] [[JustFollowingOrders Adrestian]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist characters]] are killed in the process -- including the former Black Eagles team, the heroes' fellow students in the academy, unless you recruited some of them. Meanwhile, the Black Eagles turn out to be pretty decent and well-meaning, including their leader -- the person that, upon becoming the leader of the empire, starts the aforementioned war of conquest, only to reunite the land, set it free from an AncientConspiracy behind the scenes and lead everyone into an age of progress and enlightening. Surely, the player can join [[SheIsTheKing her]] and assist in making her dreams real... or not, if they find [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans her ways]] to be too extreme. [[spoiler:And either way, [[TheManBehindTheMan the Agarthans]] are defeated, either during the campaign or post-victory.]]

** Same with ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', of course. The genre seems very conducive for playing the bad guys. Just like ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital''. Errr, wait...

* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' is primarily focused in playing agents of the eponymous organization. However, the ''[[GameMaster Handler's]] Guide'' offers advice and tips on how to play a campaign as The Fate (New York-based occultist criminals active from the 1920s unto the early 2000s) and [[TheMenInBlack MAJESTIC-12]].
** In part 1 of the campaign ''Iconoclasts'' [[InvertedTrope inverts this trope]], as players are required to play as ''ISIS foreign fighters''.

* FASA's ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}''. In the ''Earthdawn Gamemaster Pack'''s "Gamemastering Earthdawn" booklet, it is specifically stated that no PlayerCharacter may ever learn or use sacrificial BloodMagic (where an unwilling victim is harmed or killed to gain magical benefit). This is because sacrificial BloodMagic is only used by evil {{Non Player Character}}s, such as those corrupted by the [[EldritchAbomination Horrors]]. It further states that FASA will not publish any rules for using such magic.

* Zig-zagged in the ''Tabletopgame/OldWorldOfDarkness''. Like it's successor, you have to do some monstrous things to hit the bottom of the KarmaMeter, and generally speaking in a vanilla game, that will cause your end. Almost all the game lines had a "worse" version of whatever the PC's were that served as antagonists, befitting BlackAndGrayMorality. However, there was almost always a later book where you could play the evil guys - only for eviller evil guys to show up.

This is especially obvious in WWII-themed FirstPersonShooter games; it is usually the case that even though you can play both the Allied and the Axis sides in multiplayer, the single-player campaign allows you to play only as the Allied side. Whether this is because developers believe that given that their, well, [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] players will not or should not be allowed to play as the bad guys, or because historically they lost and they feel that [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel leading them to victory feels a bit weird]] is difficult to say, but it is worth noting that RealTimeStrategy games, flight sims, tactical wargames and grand strategy games usually allow you to play the Axis in single-player mode. This may have something to do with the player being more removed from the action in those types of games as well as just how awesome German ''machinery'' were.

Compare NoSwastikas, VideogameHistoricalRevisionism, and NoCanonForTheWicked.

** There ''is'' [[PromptlessBranchingPoint an option to assist the White Legs, but it is easily missed]]: go on a killing spree. If you kill a quest character, you get a quest to find the map you need, allowing you to finish the DLC without helping the non-White Legs tribes out. You won't get as many ending slides, especially if you don't kill both Joshua Graham and Daniel, and you won't get any achievements, but the alternative is there for the Legion-aligned character.

** While there are a couple of ways to go about completing the main quest, joining [[BigBad Dagoth Ur]] is not one of them. It was originally [[WhatCouldHaveBeen supposed to be]], and some snippets of script and code from it [[DummiedOut are still in the game]], but time limitations during development forced it to be dropped as an option. (A number of [[GameMod Game Mods]] have been created that will allow you to join House Dagoth, however.)

*** The supplement recommends that game masters not allow players to have {{PC}}s that are active members of fascist groups because of the groups' evil tendencies. It even says that if players favor fascist ideologies that they should stop playing ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' and "have their heads examined".

*** 5th edition also lists the Oathbreaker subclass for Paladin and Death domain subclass for Clerics in the Dungeon Master's Guide as potential classes for villains, instead of the Player's Handbook. Even then, the book notes that [=DMs=] can allow their player to chose from them (something most do). Xanathar's Guide mostly averts this, since it lists the evil Oath of Conquest.