Yeah I guess that's the thing tho, so then you take your Charactor down a darker path than intended to get the good stuff, which feels wrong. Be like the good/bad choice on the mages guild questline.

Like I say I'm no strict RPer, and its just a game, just always made the moral choices with my main and ideally like to play that way. My Thief will love DB as he kills everything and everyone from chickens to chefs to earn a buck

Another thing to remember about the DB is that it isn't just an "assassin's guild", but also a cult devoted to Sithis and the Night Mother. Your character would have to be down for getting involved in that, or else cross their fingers while praying to the Unholy Matron and just think of the money.

Like @NovaMarx I'll probably reroll.
I'm not fond of feinted RP so I won't play DB on a toon if it doesn't fit the character, even for easy-way passive skills.

@Beardimus here is some things about the brotherhood : http://www.imperial-library.info/content/cyrodill-dark-brotherhood
(keep in mind that this lore comes from games set centuries and centuries later ; so let's see how far the DB story will remind this in ESO)

I would think you would have a hard time in the guild if you were playing a lawful good type of character. They would have to perform the acts to be a part of the guild, that is watched over by a god. Of course you can do as some suggested and simply ignore the rp of it for the passives.
My main, Krist, will never be a part of the Thieves Guild or Dark Brotherhood for the same concerns you have. That is not to say I am right and others are wrong, it is simply to point out that sometimes you have to make a choice when the choices cannot commingle, or turn off your rp switch and grin and bear it.

I was able to push my main to do some "trading" for TG, but I'm unsure about DB. I eliminated the DB in Skyrim and was happy about it - not sure I want to play my main any other way. I guess I'll decide what to do when the time actually comes...

DB fit for me because I have a character from the Gold Coast... *drools over the land*

Honestly I saw this thread and was hoping I could borrow some ideas. I have also been having trouble figuring out how to justify Dark Brotherhood for my main. (I want the mob-repelling passive.)

I already used 'the Queen needs me to infiltrate them' on the Thieves Guild; the Dark Brotherhood is both more extreme and holds the real risk that someone would find out my main is an Eye and send her off to go kill the Queen, which is obviously a no-go. The best explanation I've got so far is 'the Dark Brotherhood saw how good she was at killing things and decided to kidnap and brainwash her.' ...yeah.

I'm HOPING we get some Loremaster tidbits about Shadowscales that I can shoehorn into a justification for the Celestials to get her to join. Does the allocation of Shadowscales to the Dark Brotherhood mean the stars are allies of Sithis? Are they enemies and the Shadowscales are some kind of tribute they were forced to pay? Something like that I could work with. But as she's a dedicated Star-Gazer, having her change religions isn't something that really fits, and she's not the sort to get drunk and wake up discovering she'd sworn her soul to Sithis while she was out.

I might have to do like Krist wrote, and just turn the RP switch off for this DLC.

I have different characters I RP with, but in my own "story" outside of the public RP, I try to have my main Silla live through all the stories I play through, no matter how unrealistic it would be. So for every DLC I try to imagine how Silla would end up in it.

For these latest guild DLCs, Silla is a lawful and good character, but she is going through a breakdown. After Orsinium, she was painted as a political enemy of the Covenant; didn't help that spies in the Dominion and Pact had somehow seen her there as well (thanks to Meridia's magic making her able to adventure there). She escaped to Abah's Landing, where the Covenant have little presence, but had to reveal herself to help her kinda-sorta friends at Thieves Guild. At that point, the stress, procecution, prejudgement and anger makes her decide to be the menace everyone thinks she is.

Thus, she escapes to the Gold Coast, working as a treasure hunter and mercenary. When she inevitably gets asked to join the Dark Brotherhood, she has fallen low enough that she thinks "well, why not? I'm nothing more than a murderer anyway. What is the difference in killing a king and fultilling a contract?". Naturally, she will wake up from it in due time, but that is at any rate how I imagine she would join Dark Brotherhood.

for a lawful type character you'd need a RP moment where someone in true need performs the dark sacrament and is answered... and saved by a timely murder.

you have probably already killed for your gov't, killed to save the world, & is it so far a stretch to SEE the possible good in killing for the betterment of one person? or the removal of one person for the greater good?

& I haven't played DB on the PTS, but if it helps at all... the DB has had some hilarious contracts in prior games, you could find out why someone wanted them dead and usually you'd pretty much approve.

I have created a Bosmer Dragonknight thief, assassin especially to be the bad girl in the future she will also be turned into a vampire, I really like the poison skills coming out in the new patch her name is River Dragonthorn

I too have struggled with key aspects of DB and how I might make it work with my characters. It won't fit at all for my Khajiit, but it might just be okay with my cranky, weak, sickly old Breton.

At best, he is awkward around people (making RP with others a joy...) and can be difficult and stubborn. He would probably be reasonably described as 'chaotic neutral', although not strictly so. However, this still means taking him to a very dark place. The hook to make this work at all? Poisons - or more specifically, the new ingredients available. It will be interesting to see just how far he will go in search of that elusive addition to his knowledge of thaumaturgy, and what poisons then permits him to do that he couldn't possibly consider before.

I have several characters and some of them are lawful, while others....not so much. The DB recruits all kinds. As a lawful character, the DB could be a corrupting influence, forcing the character into choices they would normally not make, or make differently. That would be a good way to RP it.
My two Nord "brothers" (Wulfrich and Eldrich) represent both sides of the coin.
I play Eldrich as a functionary, running part of the thieves guild (currently Auridon), who is in charge of making sure all activity is sanctioned and getting rid of "freelancers". He has a vicious streak and a love for torture and bloodshed, sometimes going on killing sprees just because it's fun to have the guards chasing him all over town.
Wulfrich is a Dragonknight, and tends to be more friendly, law abding, and loves travelling outside of the cities. He's the typical "knight in shining armor" type, but with a slightly darker tone, and not quite as smart.
Eldrich has been trying to corrupt is brother for years, but never seems to succeed. When the DB reaches out to him, he talks his "do gooder" brother, Wulfrich, into coming along, and that's how I RP it. Wulfrich's just doing what he can to protect his family.

>>>My main is an Imperial Templar who wears Hand of Almalexia armour and has the long dead-strait hair of a noble. He believes it is his personal mission to purge evil, where he perceives it. He will be unable to participate in the Dark Brotherhood's activities, and will likely murder anyone wearing their uniform in cold-blood, given the opportunity.
>>>Thankfully, one of my favoured alts, a Bosmeri Nightblade, is more than comfortable with all manner of lies, deceit, and corruption. So long as people take great care in doing so skillfully. She was more excited than she could have been in years to learn of the Dark Brotherhood's presence. Her attraction to killing things in different and exciting ways each time borders on sexual pleasure.

If it doesn't fit my character, then I won't do it, period. None of my characters with a backstory were "eligible." At one point my thief could have been, but she is neither into the cold-blooded killer thing nor does she appreciate the religious aspect of the DB. So instead of creating a new character for it (because I really didn't want to level them) I just did it on my Crafting Monkey.

Of course, now my Crafting Monkey is starting to be less of a faceless nobody. I now ship him with Naryu Virian thanks to the two quests in Kvatch. This is unacceptable. :U

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The whole point of roleplay (in my opinion) is that you make your own character that's not involved in the story.

I'm pretty sure OP didn't mean "traditional" roleplay you do with others, but more of the roleplaying you do on your own for your player character.