Religion Of Evil

Basic Information

Religion of Evil is a trope which involves a religion that is openly, unashamedly evil.

See Also

• Religion Tropes
• Evil Tropes
• Villain

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use

• Not very likely in real life, but they make very good villains.
• Most of the real life attempts at a religion of evil turn out to be groups of immature poseurs who delight in shocking and offending … and who are usually not as evil as they pretend to be. It's the ones who pretend to be the good guys that you need to watch out for…
  • So a cult of wannabe evil believers could make a useful 'light relief' villain for a group of PCs (perhaps along the lines of 'The Trio' from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - and once thoroughly discredited a good cover for the real villains. Also a good learning experience for excessively violent PCs, as tearing up a group of teenagers and their neckbeard mentors, even very obnoxious ones, is unlikely to win them much praise from anyone.
  • Or as a slightly less comic version, the religion of evil could act as a false lead - when the PCs storm their hideout and find that the limit of their evil is playing FATAL and sacrificing stray dogs they can be left standing in the results of terrified incontinence wondering who the hell it was that did (whatever they are investigating) anyway…
• Adventure seed: Fourth Biker of the Apocalypse