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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 1041329" data-attributes="member: 9249">It's one of those things that really depends on intent. After a Goblin raid, my CG character cut up the Worgs for food-- and checked our food supplies before disposing of the Goblin dead, because he anticipated a siege. He figured that tasty, tasty Goblin flesh was a better alternative than slow starvation. Once he saw that we had enough food to live for a few weeks, he settled for posting the goblins' heads on pikes-- which the town's Paladin promptly removed, leading to an argument over what constituted moral and/or necessary behavior. (In-character.)Another of my characters, a Neutral Lizardfolk (Ranger/Rogue type stealth killer) performs the Zithsala ritual on any competent foe he slays-- it prevents the creature from becoming undead, and honors their spirit. He does not consume sentient flesh for any other reason-- and has a stated preference for beef and mice-- but has no real aversion to cannibalism in a starvation scenario. It's a part of his calculating approach to morality and survival.Eating sentient dead is usually considered more of a barbaric trait than an evil one-- it's something uncivilized people do. While orcs and some tribes of barbarians may do it, you'd never imagine the Drow would, unless for ritual purposes. It's even fairly easy to imagine a tribe of more or less Good barbarians who eat their dead-- and their dead enemies. Killing someone just to eat them, however, is pretty easy to define as evil-- it's akin to killing them to steal their gold to buy food with.</blockquote>

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