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You literally just said: So he either did or he didnt. Which is it? Also: I'm not sending people after them to 'punish the players'. Quit making that accusation. The NPCs and authorities in game are making informed and logical decisions in response to the PCs actions, subject to their...

What on earth is not logical or verisimituldinous (spelling?) about PC actions (i.e. murder-hobo stuff) having consequences in game? Including (but not limited to) the PCs having a bounty placed on their heads, being declared wanted men in the Kingdom, or having the Kings men or similar people...

No it's not impossible to judge it. I've been doing it for 40 odd years.

For the love of God, that's not how HP work, and how on earth does the fact one is a Wizard in any way affect your mental stability and morality leading you to repeatedly psychotically murder on a whim? I get the feeling you'd be likely to raise this exact debate in a game, right around the...

I do. I've traveled all over the world and have yet to find myself in a place full of DnD-esque murder-hobos. Even in dangerous places, you'll have militants killing people over differences in religion, or nationalistic gripes, or over a gang war or whatever, but a nation full of utter...

History isnt full of people hiring other people to do jobs for them?

Barring individual deranged examples, Norsemen, Wyatt Earp, Spanish Conquistadors of the New World, and Crusaders did NOT just go around murdering people for petty grievances. Violence certainly was part and parcel of what they did, but that doesnt lead to them offing some merchant for not...

That sentence right there tells me all I need to know about whether you'd be a good fit at games I run or not (and we can both agree you and I wouldn't be a good fit; we clearly have different expectations and gaming styles). Nothing wrong with how you want to do things. But a player that...

Leaving aside the fact DnD worlds like Faerun are not medieval, does anyone here think that (historically) a bunch of vagabond foreigners could just ride into a town, murder a member of the landed Gentry (not even Nobility mind you), and ride out with zero repercussions? Even murdering a lowly...

He still gets to laud to the people if the PCs are successful. These great Heroes answered the call of the Kingdom and saved the children! History (and literature) is rife with examples. It's not just a case of hiring PCs to do unsavory work, its that PCs are expendable, they're available, this...

Who said anything about the work being immoral? Its more of a case of hiring a team of powerful and diverse specialists, to get the task done. The local lord could storm the Kobolds caves with his army to rescue some captive kids. Or he could pay some adventurers to do the dirty work for him...

For the same reasons Vladamir Putin use Wagner mercenaries, and the USA used Blackwater and other 'private security contractors' even though they have armies of Special Forces and literal Nukes at their disposal. Adventurers exist to do dirty work.

They're either NPC adventurers (getting paid) or agents of the powers that be (Bane Clerics, Assassins, Zhent warriors etc for the Zhents, Assassins and so forth for the Thieves Guild, or Champions, War Clerics, Mages, Knights and so forth for the local Lord). I mean the Lord of Beregost (a...

And people in those countries dont just routinely go around murdering each other over a few dollars, over slight insults or anything else of that nature. And DnD (Faerun) assumes a world as advanced (more advanced in many ways) as our own. Dimensional travel, Space travel, instantaneous travel...

I wish it was sometimes.

You're hubristically assuming your PC is the biggest fish in the town, and more powerful NPCs dont exist either for hire, or working for the Mafia already. Falsely. Go ahead and piss off the Flaming Fist, or the Zhents in my campaign and see what happens to you. Expect very high level NPCs to...

Ive had session zero with that player already and set my campaign expectaions. I've pulled that player up and stopped them once already. Next move is to have them publicly hung for the benefit of the other players, and then have that sooking little brat booted from my campaign either of his own...

It's not more common. Normal human beings don't go around randomly murdering people, outside of serial killers and the like, who are also generally utterly mentally unwell. If you're playing some dude who murders other human beings over petty insults or whatnot or trivial matters then: 1)...

They'd send 30 hitmen to murder you in your sleep instead of 1.

I don't want that. Firstly, because it's totally unrealistic (people don't just go around causally murdering people over minor inconveniences unless seriously mentally unwell) and secondly (assuming a Good aligned PC) its in no way morally freaking good, so it's a double whammy of rubbish...