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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3299268" data-attributes="member: 20741">Speaking as a DM running AoW (and a lawyer...)Your DM was upset because your best option for a lawful response was to go to Captain Trask, the leader of the troops in town who are under the command of the Lords of Greyhawk  - and not the local scum in Diamond Lake. The cleric of Heironius at the garrison would have spoken with dead - or threatened to - and Cullen would have talked without the threat of pain. By appealing to the authority of the Lords of Greyhawk and the Church of Hieronius - not the corrupt locals -  your character would certainly have been acting in a lawful manner.Secondly - threatening torture upon someone in order to obtain information in a very realistic and believable way is, imo, the opposite of truth, justice, order and weal. And that isn't open to finessing Jeff - in 1850 or 1950.That would be torture in the sense of "we wrapped electrodes around the hooded man's genitals and did not plug them in - but he didn't know they were not plugged in so he sang like a canary" variety of torture. "Lawful" as that term is used in D&D? Not even close. By which I mean to say you acted out of pure self-interest, without restraint or respect for the law, custom , honor or anything "good". In fact, that's pretty close to acting "evil" in my books Jeff. Not capital "E"  in that "I-give-myself-freely-to-the-Evil-of-the-Sword" Evil, but in the Big-Time long distance call from "good" sense of the word.If I was your DM - I'd have said the same thing.</blockquote>

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