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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Damon Griffin" data-source="post: 1745844" data-attributes="member: 3568">Fair enough.  I accept the suggestion that my earlier summation of Robyn's views was incomplete and allowed for a flawed assessment of his alignment.  My bad.Oh, I agree.  If the foe is helpless, then it's never a Good act (well deserved, perhaps, but never Good.)  I admitted that Robyn does commit the occasional evil act.  As Lord Pendragon, you and I all pointed out, that doesn't automatically preclude Robyn having a Good alignment.  He just has to be careful.As I've indicated, Robyn doesn't do this sort of thing for fun, personal profit, or just to prove he can.  It COULD be argued at times that he does it for expediency, but generally there is some real time pressure involved.  For example, our cleric has tried interrogating the subject magically, but he made his Will save and didn't answer her questions.  She doesn't have that spell available again until tomorrow.  A small child will be sold into slavery AND deliberately infected with lycanthropy within hours if we don't get the information somehow.  If the cleric has Speak With Dead available now, Robyn would consider killing the subject in order to give the cleric another shot at interrogation.  It wouldn't be his first choice; probably the first option would be to force feed the subject striped toadstools, which can lower WIS and adversely affect the Will save -- but that wouldn't help in the situation described above.  Second option would be psychological torture, but that's usually time consuming and might easily fail against someone with a decent Will save.  Physical torture would be good, and given these circumstances our cleric MIGHT even sanction it (she would of course heal the subject as soon as we were done.)</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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