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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prospero63" data-source="post: 4057929" data-attributes="member: 16014">I'd tell the party it's him or me and be prepared to play a new character.We had a similar situation recently. We captured a guard. My cleric of Pelor was willing to heal him, but the condition was that we don't harm or torture him. After all, the blessings of Pelor aren't there to heal, then torture, then heal, then torture. Those are not good acts, and the fact that we don't do that is what makes us "the good guys". Anyway, there was a very well developed plan to use our rogue with a hat of disguise to appear as one of this guys buddies. We would then take our plant off and "torture" him, leaving the prisoner to his imagination of what happened. We'd then return with the "beaten" companion, then take the prisoner off and question him without harming him. It was agreed by everyone, no harm to the guy. If he doesn't talk, he doesn't talk. Plan is going *perfectly*. We return to where the prisoner is, and he has managed to move his hands in front of him (they were shackled behind him). Our big, dumb barbarian kicks the guy. The instant that happen my cleric rushed in and called the bluff. Told the guy that wasn't supposed to happen, healed him completely, then told the barbarian that if he tried anything like that again, he was going through me and while he might be a damage machine, there's no way he makes it past 3 will saves (in char it was hold persons) while I'm 100% certain I can take whatever damage he dishes out. In the end we wound up letting the guy go free, and in gratitude and due to a "change of heart" he shared most of the info we were looking for anyway. What's the point of my story? I dunno, but I've always found that the concept of torturing prisoners for information isn't really a good act. It can be a lawful act (LE or LN), but it's just not good. If the party as a whole is a good party, I would hope that they would all have a problem with it. In my case, most of the party is good and they backed me, in all likelihood for two big reasons. First, I'm the only cleric.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Second, while we have killed enemies in battle, etc. we all *agreed* that if healing was used on the guy, he wasn't to be touched. So by virtue of the fact that we had all agreed on what was to transpire, the barbarian in action went back on the agreement.</blockquote>

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