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<blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus" data-source="post: 808668" data-attributes="member: 1077"><p>The point is, that is not your decision to make. The guards have the lawful authority to dispense this type of menace, not you. So if they did choose to kill it, that should be no moral dilemna for you. If you capture a murderer, and he is imprisioned and tried and gets the death penalty, are you responsible for their death? No, because he was tried in convicted and sentanced under the law. That is (or at least can be, depending on your campaign setting) what the guards do. They (might) have the lawful authority to act as judge, jury and executioner. And if they lawfully do not, but do it anyway, then they would be evil, and the adventurer's can deal with them from that point on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And how do you know those guards aren't 20th level fighters? Are you going to ask them? Mr. Guard, what level are you? It is quite simple as I see it. You subdued a major menace. The battle for you is one. You have no further obligation to imprision or kill this creature. This creature's fate is up to the local authorities, ie the guards. If they choose to kill it, do I share in the responsibilty for it's death? No, see the above reply. And even if a character is feeling guilty because of this, I would rather share in the responsibility of it's death than had we chosen not to stop it, and shared in the responsibility of innocent people's deaths.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree with your other scenarios except this. And I've already addressed my feeling about it in the two quotes above. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The adventurer's are not responsible for anyone else's actions but their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RigaMortus, post: 808668, member: 1077"] The point is, that is not your decision to make. The guards have the lawful authority to dispense this type of menace, not you. So if they did choose to kill it, that should be no moral dilemna for you. If you capture a murderer, and he is imprisioned and tried and gets the death penalty, are you responsible for their death? No, because he was tried in convicted and sentanced under the law. That is (or at least can be, depending on your campaign setting) what the guards do. They (might) have the lawful authority to act as judge, jury and executioner. And if they lawfully do not, but do it anyway, then they would be evil, and the adventurer's can deal with them from that point on. And how do you know those guards aren't 20th level fighters? Are you going to ask them? Mr. Guard, what level are you? It is quite simple as I see it. You subdued a major menace. The battle for you is one. You have no further obligation to imprision or kill this creature. This creature's fate is up to the local authorities, ie the guards. If they choose to kill it, do I share in the responsibilty for it's death? No, see the above reply. And even if a character is feeling guilty because of this, I would rather share in the responsibility of it's death than had we chosen not to stop it, and shared in the responsibility of innocent people's deaths. I agree with your other scenarios except this. And I've already addressed my feeling about it in the two quotes above. :) The adventurer's are not responsible for anyone else's actions but their own. [/QUOTE]
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