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<blockquote data-quote="Hejdun" data-source="post: 2494033" data-attributes="member: 839"><p>Here's a hypothetical situation for you. A red dragon is terrorizing the area around a large town. Lucky ones just get their money and stuff taken from them, the unlucky ones end up bheing a smear on the ground. The townsfolk commission the party to kill the dragon.</p><p></p><p>Through cunning and luck, the party makes it into the dragon's lair and come upon the dragon sleeping. The party is Good aligned, and want to keep their Good alignment. Should they:</p><p></p><p>1. CdG the dragon in his sleep with the biggest weapon your party has.</p><p>2. Kindly tap the dragon on the head, tell him "Your evil days are done, foul monster," and procede to fight him.</p><p>3. Um, bribe the dragon so that he leaves the area and terrorizes some other town?</p><p></p><p>In those cases, #3 is probably chaotic evil. #2 is probably lawful neutral, with a leaning towards evil. #1 I would say is chaotic good.</p><p></p><p>Justification:</p><p>1. You've swiftly and efficiently ended the threat to the town and everyone else the dragon would've killed/mugged in the future. Congrats, you're the hero of the town. I labeled it chaotic only if you believe that characters should act with "honor".</p><p>2. You followed the code of "honor," and thus are lawful, but unless you are 100% sure you can kill the dragon in a straight up fight, you're risking the lives of not only your fellow party members, but if you lose, the dragon is going to be able to kill/maim even more people because of your foolishness.</p><p>3. You're just shirking your responsibilty and letting the dragon kill/maim other people and not yourself or this particular town. You just shifted the burden of evil onto someone else, which you could have very easily eliminated the threat to everyone.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you get someone into dying, you haven't killed him. You've temporarily disabled him, and if you do nothing he'll almost certainly die. In the case of a sleep spell, you've temporarily disabled him, but if you do nothing he'll wake up. It's just a manner of, instead of callously watching the dying guy bleed to death (which you could EASILY remedy if you felt so inclined), you're actually finishing the sleeping guy off. There's no difference; in both cases you caused the death, and in both cases you could have refrained from killing him. Unless we deem that watching evil dead guys bleed to death is evil, there's absolutely no basis for saying that CdGing sleeping opponents is similarly evil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hejdun, post: 2494033, member: 839"] Here's a hypothetical situation for you. A red dragon is terrorizing the area around a large town. Lucky ones just get their money and stuff taken from them, the unlucky ones end up bheing a smear on the ground. The townsfolk commission the party to kill the dragon. Through cunning and luck, the party makes it into the dragon's lair and come upon the dragon sleeping. The party is Good aligned, and want to keep their Good alignment. Should they: 1. CdG the dragon in his sleep with the biggest weapon your party has. 2. Kindly tap the dragon on the head, tell him "Your evil days are done, foul monster," and procede to fight him. 3. Um, bribe the dragon so that he leaves the area and terrorizes some other town? In those cases, #3 is probably chaotic evil. #2 is probably lawful neutral, with a leaning towards evil. #1 I would say is chaotic good. Justification: 1. You've swiftly and efficiently ended the threat to the town and everyone else the dragon would've killed/mugged in the future. Congrats, you're the hero of the town. I labeled it chaotic only if you believe that characters should act with "honor". 2. You followed the code of "honor," and thus are lawful, but unless you are 100% sure you can kill the dragon in a straight up fight, you're risking the lives of not only your fellow party members, but if you lose, the dragon is going to be able to kill/maim even more people because of your foolishness. 3. You're just shirking your responsibilty and letting the dragon kill/maim other people and not yourself or this particular town. You just shifted the burden of evil onto someone else, which you could have very easily eliminated the threat to everyone. If you get someone into dying, you haven't killed him. You've temporarily disabled him, and if you do nothing he'll almost certainly die. In the case of a sleep spell, you've temporarily disabled him, but if you do nothing he'll wake up. It's just a manner of, instead of callously watching the dying guy bleed to death (which you could EASILY remedy if you felt so inclined), you're actually finishing the sleeping guy off. There's no difference; in both cases you caused the death, and in both cases you could have refrained from killing him. Unless we deem that watching evil dead guys bleed to death is evil, there's absolutely no basis for saying that CdGing sleeping opponents is similarly evil. [/QUOTE]
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