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<blockquote data-quote="Aluvial" data-source="post: 5477379" data-attributes="member: 6862">Interesting thread.&nbsp; Here's a classic thought problem.&nbsp;You are in a minecart shaft deep in the bowels of some duergar hell and you see a loaded ore cart coming down the line.&nbsp; You stand at a switch and can allow the cart to travel on one of two paths, the one it is on, or to switch it to a secondary line.&nbsp;Standing down the original line is your old wizard buddy, intrigued by some rune scratched in the ground.&nbsp; He has his gnarled old back to you and will never see it coming.&nbsp; Do nothing and &quot;Smarty&quot; gets it.&nbsp; This means more XP for you the next time the DM gets around to the new tally, not to mention spliting shares 4 ways instead of 5.&nbsp; &nbsp;On the other line is a baby duergar who has somehow crawled away from its absentminded mother who is busy whipping her slaves into cleaning up some offal one made in the corner while chained overnight.&nbsp; The mother will probably eat her young anyway if it gets squashed.&nbsp;There is no time to warn either the wizard or the baby, nor can you stop the cart.&nbsp; You can only either pull the switch, or not.&nbsp; &nbsp;The question is this: Do you switch the track and kill the innocent duergar infant?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aluvial, post: 5477379, member: 6862"] Interesting thread. Here's a classic thought problem. You are in a minecart shaft deep in the bowels of some duergar hell and you see a loaded ore cart coming down the line. You stand at a switch and can allow the cart to travel on one of two paths, the one it is on, or to switch it to a secondary line. Standing down the original line is your old wizard buddy, intrigued by some rune scratched in the ground. He has his gnarled old back to you and will never see it coming. Do nothing and "Smarty" gets it. This means more XP for you the next time the DM gets around to the new tally, not to mention spliting shares 4 ways instead of 5. On the other line is a baby duergar who has somehow crawled away from its absentminded mother who is busy whipping her slaves into cleaning up some offal one made in the corner while chained overnight. The mother will probably eat her young anyway if it gets squashed. There is no time to warn either the wizard or the baby, nor can you stop the cart. You can only either pull the switch, or not. The question is this: Do you switch the track and kill the innocent duergar infant? [/QUOTE]

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