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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5323308" data-attributes="member: 807">As a former player once told his fellow players "Stop killing the bad guys when we catch them!  They might escape from jail and seek revenge on us later, but then we get xp for defeating them twice!"To answer your original question - i've never not given xp for the situation you describe.  And I don't think I would because I know it would bother my fellow players who will (rightfully or wrongfully) believe that the xp is owed to them since they defeated the challenge by way or murder, but defeated the challenge none the less.I think it comes down to why are they doing it?  as you describe, it sounds like they just want to bring closure and tie up all lose ends...but what if their mission is to bring someone back alive?  then it will get them (for at least one quest) to play in a different mindset.  Or maybe they are in an area where the laws are very strict about vigalante justice methods, and so on.And also, once in a while someone comments on the murders done by the PCs... after all, it isn't an ethical delima unless there is at least some social acknowledgment of it.</blockquote>