I played mostly good until about 1-2 years ago. Evil is much, much easier and goodies really do get slaughtered. I'd roll a goodie after my current just to even things up, but I'm not relishing the prospect of gear-hungry, PK-incompetent Fortress members whose lives I have to save, whose bodies I have to gear, whose skills I have to teach

But it's really not so bad when said newbies have a the right mindset for learning.

I think what newbies really need to learn is to stop gathering equipment from Dragon Lair X or Shiny Tower Y. PK is all about practice, not about gear. A good PKer will always have good gear, because he'll kill lots and won't die much. And good PK takes about... 400 hours or so to learn, over the course of a few characters. Until a newbie has learned to PK, he should not bother spending too much time getting gear. Plus, being gear-hungry is such bad RP for a Maran.