I am a monster. I live in the sewers. I am all evil off course, and I am guarding some sort of a treasure or something. It's very important for the plot of a mission, so you can bet I will be slain before the role-play-evening is over.
Just to make things easy, I look all evil, a bit giant-spider-like. Of course the man who invented me had no idea how hard it is for me to meet girls, to get my hair right in the morning. Well, I can never count on any sympathy, I'm just the evil monster.
Life is very cruel. Always the same pattern. The party comes in, sees I'm just an evil monster, thinks: 'Well, that's easy, we can just slay' and reliefed it isn't difficult just start hitting. Well, how exciting. Who will win, good or evil? The big party or the one monster? I may take down some of them, but they'll probably win.
Why am I treated like this? Have I no feelings? If you stick me, do I not bleed? If you tickle me, do I not laugh? If I kill, do I not get experience-points?
But still, the party won't show any mercy, I bet. They will just be another group of adventurers, working together. Sometimes one will leave, then another one will join directly, it's just like a soap-opera. One will be stupid, another one smart, another one my next dinner, I hope the paladin, he's very big.
It could very well be the paladin, because he will attack me when it's not wise. That's because he is so heroic. Sometimes I think 'herioc' is another word for 'stupid'. Well, at least being stupid helps when you are heroic. But still, heroes are needed now and then. Me, as an evil monster, also am concerned about the well-fare of society today. There is a lack of heroes. If they want heroes, they should look at role-players. They obviously have a desire to protect people from evil and being heroic. But they are often treated like strange people with their 'evil' role-playing; that's quite stupid.
You may think that an evil non-player-character like me shouldn't talk as friendly as this. Well, I can't help it. I just got the label 'evil' on me. The guy making me up just wrote down 'algignment: evil' on his character sheet. I just have to live with that. I would like to go to the movies and dinner and join a litteraire discussion group, but it will not happen. If it was all turned around I maybe got a change. If the players where locked in a mission and the characters could play them whenever they wanted. If an Orc, a Dwarf, a Human, a Halfling, a Gnome and me where sitting around a table and the Orc said: "I am Theo, a human of 20 years old who has to go to school every day. I role a Will save to see if I'm going to make my home-work."
Then the Dwarf would say: "I would tempt you to watch a movie with me, the movie is so good that it requires a Will save of 30." Then the Orc would say: "I can make home-work later."
But it's not the case. So now I ask of all you players: please have a litte sympathy to me. I am just a monster. Don't always role-play in the same pattern, just killing everything what's evil. Listen what they have to say to you. They still are persons.
I mean, role-playing is about acting, it's a reflection of real life. In real life you don't just slay whatever comes to you. In real life, you can never call a person totally evil, that's the difference (some of you may not agree according to teachers, brothers or sisters), but in role-playing, try to give a fight a bit more character and don't make it just another hit-till-he's-dead-fight. Give me the change to gain some dinner and experience-points.
And... oh.. wait.. I've just found a great magical weapon and a spellbook! Forget all that sad talk, I'm going to kick your ass! WHAHAHAHAHA! (I just thought of a joke).

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