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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5521790" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm having that sort of trouble.  It's been escalating and I'm not sure exactly when I need to step in and provide some sort of consequences.1) After a fight with some goblin cultists, some goblins were severely wounded or unconscious.  A clearly evil goblin assassin who was an temporary ally of conveinance told the mostly good aligned PC's to kill the wounded, imply that they would do this because they were just like him.  The PC's obligingly killed the prisoners.2) After a fight with some human cultists, the leader of the human cultists had been mortally wounded and was clearly dying.  Not content to just let her bleed out, one of the PC's went over and cut her throat.3) After a second fight with some human cultists, one was taken prisoner and intimidated into leading the party to a hidden shrine.  While there, some of the PC's began openly discussing whether to kill the prisoner.  The prisoner, though having his hands tied behind his back, therefore decided when an oppurtunity presented itself to possibly escape to flee.  The PC's pursued the prisoner - who was still bound and badly wounded, eventually shooting him in the back with an arrow and then not content with that stabbed him after he stumbled and fell for good measure.These acts to me are sufficiently ruthless that if they aren't evil, neither do they seem to me to be good even though so far the victims have all been not nice individuals.  It is however cold blood murder, and I don't really know another way to describe.  Under the circumstances it has occurred in so far I could accept them as a character flaw in even a good character, but noone took a flaw of that sort or even really hinted at it in the background.  I readily accept the behavior from the neutral members of the party, but I'm not sure how I feel about the good aligned members either engaging in it, or just standing around turning a blind eye to it.  Three of the members of the party are in good aligned religious organizations.  One is the equivalent of a Paladin, and another is a cleric.  How ruthless toward the bad guys can the good guys get without being indistinguishable from those that they fight?  I mean, they've pretty much validated the Goblin Assassins opinion of them thus far.</blockquote>

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