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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 5521823" data-attributes="member: 9249">Are Goblins in your game people, however evil, or are they monsters? If the PCs have reason to believe that Goblins are irredeemable or that, even defeated, they still represented a threat to nearby communities, then killing them was justified and possibly even necessary. In a world where it is possible to summon demons that can lay waste to entire cities, cults are serious business.If your PCs had ever had dealings with peaceful Goblins, and these Goblins hadn't been members of an evil cult, then I might be more inclined to view this as questionable.That sounds like a mercy killing to me. They'd already killed her, and they weren't going to heal her, so why allow her to suffer while she bleeds out?Aside from my earlier comments about cultists in a world with actual demons, this strikes me as considerably less okay. They took him prisoner and allowed him to bargain for his life, and then killed him anyway. The fact that he tried to escape counts in their favor, but he didn't make a run for it until they started discussing killing him-- breaking their bargain-- right in front of them. That's an Evil act in my book, and it's time for the religious characters to start atoning.</blockquote>