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<blockquote data-quote="Tal Rasha" data-source="post: 3756036" data-attributes="member: 46213">Right, I could probably have expressed myself better. I meant to ask to which degree you think the character's intentions matter. That is, he's at one point beating a person to death. Agreed, the act in itself is evil. But how, if at all, do you factor in his motivation? Although a bit hard to imagine, it is possible that he thought he was doing the right thing. Suppose the character was a member of a clergy that considered physical pain a way to expunge one's sins. This is also why I had the &quot;same end results&quot; reference in there - since you end up with the same situation, the difference between mercifully and quickly terminating an opponent and doing the same in a different manner is either in the process used or in the reasons behind the process - or both.Incidentally, +5 keyboard made a very good point with the above quote from the PHB. Maybe he's not NE after all...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tal Rasha, post: 3756036, member: 46213"] Right, I could probably have expressed myself better. I meant to ask to which degree you think the character's intentions matter. That is, he's at one point beating a person to death. Agreed, the act in itself is evil. But how, if at all, do you factor in his motivation? Although a bit hard to imagine, it is possible that he thought he was doing the right thing. Suppose the character was a member of a clergy that considered physical pain a way to expunge one's sins. This is also why I had the "same end results" reference in there - since you end up with the same situation, the difference between mercifully and quickly terminating an opponent and doing the same in a different manner is either in the process used or in the reasons behind the process - or both. Incidentally, +5 keyboard made a very good point with the above quote from the PHB. Maybe he's not NE after all... [/QUOTE]

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