10th Anniversary event RP points

I certainly never meant to imply they would be unplayable.  Anyone can play an evil character.  However, you will be PCing, ergo we can't tell players of good characters to tolerate evil characters.  We might try to incorporate a plot mechanism help, or maybe the plot will already be deadly enough that we won't have to do anything, but ultimately we can't force a PC to do anything.

This isn't to put a RP rule into effect. The point of this discussion is to give the players an idea of what olden days of KR were like.
The advantage I see in using that old philosophy is that when we played then, there was amazing tensions to deal with which made the RP so much more intense and enjoyable, yet people didn't take it too far (as it eventually did sadly) and start killing each other.
Its the same as barbarians and ogres not liking mages. Are they going to kill them? No, not really, but the tension makes for great moments and helps people feel even more in character. This was the same with religion, which effects much more players and thus got everyone more into things. For one event, there's no consequences to trying it to bring that back since its the theme of the weekend anyway.

It's a great point that you made, Chris, and we have a discussion going on now about how we might be able to foster the right environment via plot circumstances. I think probably the biggest factor will be the one that made evil PCs tolerable in the old days but not in the present day, and that is that with fewer characters with less power, everyone is important to surviving the external threats. In the current day Travance, there are too many good (or mostly good) heroes with a great deal of power and the sense that you need any one person to survive the day is basically lost.

Within my first fifteen months at KR, there were evil PCs that were publicly so and some that were understood to be evil but never said it aloud and were never asked. This "don't ask, don't tell" attitude was born of necessity. I can remember one day talking with Alex Blockus OOG about how everyone was making sure Orias would be around for the great battle later, and that they genuinely thought the battle would be lost without him. Alex thought it was actually funny, because Orias was about 13th level at the time and he knew that on paper he really wasn't that much of an asset. But, I digress. The point is that people were worried about how they would fare against the outside threat that month, and so putting Orias on the bonfire because he might be an Anti-Paladin seemed a bit rash.

So, at the very least, this event will put things back to the state of people being forced to think about how they'll survive, because they won't have a cadre of 30+ level characters to do the heavy lifting. As I said, we'll see what else we can do to create the right atmosphere - without creating a clockwork orange, that is.