Earthdawn has the Theran Empire (a mix between Atlantis, Rome, and the Melnibonians from Elric), and there is a deep philosophical conflict between the empire and the local Dwarven Kingdom of Throal over slavery, which touches on the background of the Orkish kingdoms. I've played one or two "Theran agents" games, but they were mostly one-shots.

Quote from: RPGPundit;950586I've never been particularly interested in games where the PCs are the evil guys, at least not those kind of evil guys.

Wait, you have never played Warhammer 40k?

Quote from: AsenRG;950678Wait, you have never played Warhammer 40k?

I never played the 40K rpg, no.

Quote from: RPGPundit;951206I never played the 40K rpg, no.

That's surprising, I have the impression most people have. Are you avoiding it because of Reasons? Or did it just never come up?

Eh, define "evil"? Most empires are sort of morally iffy to start with - the word in itself sort of implies a state of affairs that was created and is maintained by one powerful central region stomping heavily on a bunch of weaker outlying regions (if a bunch of regions are sticking together on their own volition, it's probably a "coalition" or some such).

Having that said, empires also tend to have enough going for them that you can imagine a character who supports one while still being sympathetic - they do represent law and order, if nothing else, and in a sufficiently chaotic and dangerous world that can be a powerful thing. So yes, I can imagine playing a character who supports an empire, and therefore in extension imagine playing a character who supports an evil empire.

There'd have to be some limits to the evil, though. The Nazis were just too batshit crazy for me to even put myself in the same mindspace as them, and while I don't know enough about the Hunts to be sure, I have the general impression that they mostly looted and burned a lot, and I think I'd get bored with that pretty soon. (an assumption I'm basing on the fact that I have never been able to finish a Chaos, Vampire or Orc campaign in Total War: Warhammer - making the world steadily worse the more I succeed just depresses me...)

I could imagine playing a KGB agent, depending on what I'd be expected to do - putting people in front of firing squads for voicing unpopular opinions would be too evil for me, but taking part in spy drama against American agents? Sure, that I could get behind. I'd even be fine with my character doing firing-squad-related things "off screen," as long as the meat of the game was the morally neutral stuff.

So I guess I don't mind evil as a background, but I don't particularly want to have it front and center? Which admittedly comes pretty close to answering "no, not really" to the original question, now that I think about it...

Quote from: AsenRG;951364That's surprising, I have the impression most people have. Are you avoiding it because of Reasons? Or did it just never come up?

I found its approach completely uninspired. I loved the WFRP 2e rules. I thought breaking up 40K into three mini-games was awful.

Quote from: RPGPundit;952541I found its approach completely uninspired. I loved the WFRP 2e rules. I thought breaking up 40K into three mini-games was awful.

As a matter of fact, I agree, but since I don't care for any of those games, bar one, it just never became a problem:D!