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<blockquote data-quote="pyk" data-source="post: 1133994" data-attributes="member: 14254">Taken out of context, this would seem to be a standard behaiviour pattern for all LG characters. However, adding the rest of the flavour text, being that a Lammasu is a solitary being that normally dwells in abandoned temples and ruins, and that characters seek out the lammasu for help, indicates that the lammasu's actions of attacking evil out of hand is based on the evil creature tresspassing on it's territory. This makes it a lawful act, as well as good, as it can be presumed that the evil creature was there to attack the lammasu.Now, the cleric in question. The LE guard obviously did not attack the cleric first, or you would have mentioned this. The LE guard was not tresspassing on the cleric's territory, as the guard was at his post. The guard was working for someone, being easily presumed not to be the mayor of the city, lord of the castle, etc. Therefore, I can be safe in assuming that there is a law in this particular land that killing, attacking, harming a guard that is on duty is a criminal act. The cleric, therefore, was performing an illegal act, and to be Lawful Good requires the character to follow the laws of the land. Had the cleric been in his own temple, then killing an evil character would have been justified.This one act in and of itself would not justify an alignment change, but it should illicite a warning from the cleric's god that further acts in kind will. And, depending on the god, the alignment can usually be one shift off. However, some gods do not tolerate the alignment being off at all, and may strip the cleric of his powers for an alignment change.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pyk, post: 1133994, member: 14254"] Taken out of context, this would seem to be a standard behaiviour pattern for all LG characters. However, adding the rest of the flavour text, being that a Lammasu is a solitary being that normally dwells in abandoned temples and ruins, and that characters seek out the lammasu for help, indicates that the lammasu's actions of attacking evil out of hand is based on the evil creature tresspassing on it's territory. This makes it a lawful act, as well as good, as it can be presumed that the evil creature was there to attack the lammasu. Now, the cleric in question. The LE guard obviously did not attack the cleric first, or you would have mentioned this. The LE guard was not tresspassing on the cleric's territory, as the guard was at his post. The guard was working for someone, being easily presumed not to be the mayor of the city, lord of the castle, etc. Therefore, I can be safe in assuming that there is a law in this particular land that killing, attacking, harming a guard that is on duty is a criminal act. The cleric, therefore, was performing an illegal act, and to be [B]Lawful[/B] Good requires the character to follow the laws of the land. Had the cleric been in his own temple, then killing an evil character would have been justified. This one act in and of itself would not justify an alignment change, but it should illicite a warning from the cleric's god that further acts in kind will. And, depending on the god, the alignment can usually be one shift off. However, some gods do not tolerate the alignment being off at all, and may strip the cleric of his powers for an alignment change. [/QUOTE]

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