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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 4019742" data-attributes="member: 18701">As I mentioned in your other thread <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=217529" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=217529</a> , D&amp;D is so much easier to understand if you don't think of it as a video game. Forget about penalties and stat changes because you don't need to worry about that and there might not be any character stat changes. Instead, think of it as a real person in a real world. Think to yourself, &quot;what will happen in this world if my PC kills this guy?&quot;Think of D&amp;D like it's a movie. What would happen if Luke Skywalker killed Han Solo in Star Wars? Is George Lucas going to get on the tv screen and tell you that Luke is going to take a -5 penalty to his attack for the rest of his life? No, but we'll probably watch Chewbacca chase Luke down for revenge. Or Leia might have the Rebel Alliance capture Luke and throw him in a jail cell. Or Luke might turn to the Dark Side since he killed a good guy. it depends on what the DM (George Lucas) decides will happen.So to answer your question, What happens if you kill a PC? Maybe he gets away with the killing and nothing happens. If the town authorities think it's a crime, they might chase you and kill or arrest you. If the other PCs don't like that you killed a fellow teammate, they might attack you. If he was a good aligned character and you are not evil, then the DM might tell you that you're now evil since you commited an evil act.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 4019742, member: 18701"] As I mentioned in your other thread [url]http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=217529[/url] , D&D is so much easier to understand if you don't think of it as a video game. Forget about penalties and stat changes because you don't need to worry about that and there might not be any character stat changes. Instead, think of it as a real person in a real world. Think to yourself, "what will happen in this world if my PC kills this guy?" Think of D&D like it's a movie. What would happen if Luke Skywalker killed Han Solo in Star Wars? Is George Lucas going to get on the tv screen and tell you that Luke is going to take a -5 penalty to his attack for the rest of his life? No, but we'll probably watch Chewbacca chase Luke down for revenge. Or Leia might have the Rebel Alliance capture Luke and throw him in a jail cell. Or Luke might turn to the Dark Side since he killed a good guy. it depends on what the DM (George Lucas) decides will happen. So to answer your question, What happens if you kill a PC? Maybe he gets away with the killing and nothing happens. If the town authorities think it's a crime, they might chase you and kill or arrest you. If the other PCs don't like that you killed a fellow teammate, they might attack you. If he was a good aligned character and you are not evil, then the DM might tell you that you're now evil since you commited an evil act. [/QUOTE]

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