Everybody gangsta until the local lord begins putting up wanted posters, bounty hunters harass them at least once a session, knights attack them every other, NPC adventuring parties of every alignment hunt them for not just bounty money but the sweet loot, temples of the more militant Good dieties like Kord or Saint Cuthbert start tasking their paladins to destroy them...
nothing like the loot coming to you
Though you'll have to live like complete outlaws pretty much for the rest of your life. The more you kill, the more of a threat you become, and escalation will occur on yo ass. Kings don't tolerate jumped up mercenaries laying waste to their nice infrastructure for very long, especially since doing so makes him look weak, and weak kings get overthrown.
This particular spell is part of why I was banned from ever playing gnome illusionist/thief again, after a time when near the end of a scenario, I went ahead of the party to "scout" and instead snuck past two mini-bosses, distracted the main boss who was giving a villain speech, stole the MacGuffin with the unseen servant, snuck it into my pocket, and kept it for myself while letting the rest of the party get obliterated by the bosses while what they were fighting for was already gone.
For Total Murderhobo Victory: overthrow the weak king yourself. Declare yourself king.
Congrats, you overthrew the king.
Act like a South American commie tyrant until you get assassinated yourself.
Well, you can bet all the other kingdoms will go CIA on your ass. Drug cartels too if you're bad for business.
tbh doing fantasy blood meridian sounds better than doing epic lawful good dungeon crawl beat the evil quest №6767
I usually did the LG dungeon crawl stuff in D&D. When I switched mainly to CoC it became a lot more morally grey. The original team of my main campaign were mobsters who lost a bunch of their crew to cultists and while they were still criminals, letting the world be destroyed by eldritch evil was not something they were going to put up with, and they wanted revenge. The police turned a blind eye to their activities, or even sometimes actively assisted them, because they were willing to get rid of other bad dudes without bothering with niceties like due process or civil rights. Plus, they hated Communists with every fiber of their being.
bitch, i am a king
we was kangs n sheet
das rite
Oh there's potential, just make it clear to the GM that's what you're aiming for.
Bully the shit out of him.
i've unironically had like at least one table where GM would be foaming at the mouth at slightest hint of edginess and would only do tolkienesque fantasy stuff.
Just keep running with your preferred game.
And if you're a GM, that's your problem. If nobody is willing to play your game, it possibly sucks. Maybe run a game people actually want to play.
Sometimes that's definitely the case, but with the lowest common denominator of TTRPG players these days being braindead people that want to play a magic tea party version of 5e instead of anything else, it could still just be the player.
It wasn't a problem for long. The problem was that it just wasn't D&D.