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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 415031" data-attributes="member: 224">Re: Detect Evil    The spell detects evil creatures.  Creatures are designated evil by their alignment.  Therefore the spell detects creatures who have an evil alignment descriptor.  What's the problem?  <shrug>Re:Moral dilemmas#20)  PCs save a human child from bandits, and return her home.  Through hints and circumstance, they find out the child ran away because she was about to be sacrificed by the townsfolk.  The PCs stop the townsfolk....only to find that the townsfolk need to sacrifice one of their own every so often, or else they turn into ravening CE were-beasts...... (Swiped and modified from Stephen King story).  What to do?What my PCs did:  The story took quite awhile to develop.....when the finale came, they were shocked...the look on their collective faces as they put the final piece in place was priceless.  After ferocious intra-party debate, they ended up taking the girl away and leaving the townsfolk to their fate.  We still talk about that one.....#21) PCs were attacked (and eventually captured) by NG bounty hunters, who take particular pains to avoid seriously injuring th' PCs.  The Bounty hunters explain to the PCs what they had done wrong, and why they were being taken back for trial.  The PCs know they are being framed, and they know the trial is rigged by an arch-nemesis.  Do they try to escape, even if that means killing one or more of the bounty-hunters?  Do they instead go and try to clear their name?What my PCs did:  They concidered it a no-brainer.  Of course they try to escape!  ...And what's a dead bounty hunter or two amongst friends?  There's always resurrection, right?#22) PCs hired to clear out a small community of rock trolls that have been raiding nearby farms.  The DM is stupified when th' PCs take th' trouble to talk to the rock trolls first, before slaughtering them.  Although trust is scarce, the trolls try to convince th' PCs of their lack of food and the defensive and non-lethal nature of the raids.  Detect Evil does not show the trolls to be evil.......What my PCs did:  They had the trolls at their mercy...could've mopped th' floor wit' 'em, mostly due to superior preparation and strategy.  Instead, against the strenuous objection of the fighter and the druid of the group, they decided to believe the trolls story and do some further investigations back at town.  Of course, this means they let the trolls go......</blockquote>

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