An assassin's motives.

Ion

Explorer
I do not murder. I do not execute. I do not massacre. I never torture. I have no truck with crimes of passion or hatred or pointless gain. I do not do it to delight in death, this does not fill some secret inner need, this is not about petty advantage or some cause or belief. I offer a cheaper more humanitarian alternative to war.

Above all I assassinate people to make money.


I wrote down this little passage from one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (Pyramids) because I found it really intriguing. I've turned a few words around, and added a few other ideas that were presented in the book to try and write it as sort of motto or something.

What alignment would an organisation that presents itself as the cheap alternative to war be? Objectively they still kill people, and that's generally considered an evil act. What if they really focus on the "I kill people to prevent war" part? Isn't that something a lot of adventurers do?

I'm leaning towards LE or true N.
 

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NE. Nice quote though, i like that.

Has anyone seen Munich, the Spielberg film? Without going into too much detail, normal men are hired as assassins to kill terrorists. It is morally and ethically against some of them, but they do it anyway because it's their duty to their country. And ultimately it solves nothing. Violence begets violence.
 


In D&D it's evil. From 1E PHB p. 28:

Assassins are evil in alignment (perforce, as the killing of humans and other intelligent life forms for the purpose of profit is basically held to be the antithesis of weal).
 



domino said:
To quote Chun from Remo Williams, "Assassination is the highest form of civil service."
You'd better spell Chiun's name right before he finds out you've dishonored him so! Chiun doesn't take such things lightly!

Johnathan
 

I would lean more to LE, for I think there would have to be a code/contract that they would follow, they are not willy nilly killing people they are killing people for cause.
 

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