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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5423736" data-attributes="member: 64209">No.&nbsp;This item is there to prevent actions that seem right but are not. For instance, killing the inevitable...the phylactery would have been buzzing like a hive of angry bees.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Apart from that, there is room in every campaign for a DM to ask &quot;are you sure?&quot; &nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes (as someone stated above) what is obvious to the DM is not obvious to the players, or in the heat of the moment, is something the players did not consider. With things like ethos violations and moral conundrums, not all people view morality in the same way. Morality in faux-medieval, frontier justice is far removed from our own understandings, complicating matters even further. &nbsp;Just as there is room for a DM to ask &quot;are you sure&quot; to a player who is about to leap over maga, there is room for a DM to ask a player &quot;are you sure&quot; when (for example) the paladin wants to slit the throat of a hostage.&nbsp;The DM in this scenario didn't say &quot;you CAN'T do that&quot;...he asked a variant of &quot;are you sure&quot;.&nbsp;The player then got all pissy that the restrictions of law and good that he chose when making a paragon of law and goodness...restricted his actions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 5423736, member: 64209"] No. This item is there to prevent actions that seem right but are not. For instance, killing the inevitable...the phylactery would have been buzzing like a hive of angry bees. Apart from that, [I]there is room in every campaign for a DM to ask "are you sure?[/I]" Sometimes (as someone stated above) what is obvious to the DM is not obvious to the players, or in the heat of the moment, is something the players did not consider. With things like ethos violations and moral conundrums, not all people view morality in the same way. Morality in faux-medieval, frontier justice is far removed from our own understandings, complicating matters even further. Just as there is room for a DM to ask "are you sure" to a player who is about to leap over maga, there is room for a DM to ask a player "are you sure" when (for example) the paladin wants to slit the throat of a hostage. The DM in this scenario didn't say "you CAN'T do that"...he asked a variant of "are you sure". The player then got all pissy that the restrictions of law and good that he chose when making a paragon of law and goodness...restricted his actions. [/QUOTE]

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