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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 866519" data-attributes="member: 4981">I would argue that it depends on the situation and actually simply deals with killing in general and is not related to the means of execusion.If you would view what the character is doing as evil, without the CdG added in then it is evil. For example:You are just strolling through the woods with your band of hearty adventurers when you hear a huge ruccous coming down the path. You all hide and see 2 fire giants, 4 ogres and 2 dire wolves march by giving the appearance of a military party. You decide to stalk them and kill the fire giants when the first opportunity presents itself.This is an evil act, because the characters do not know what the fire giants are up to. There are any number of reasons for those giants to be there that do not deserve retaliation on the part of the PCs. By stalking and killing these fire giants the PCs are showing nothing short of cold-blooded racism.If we add into this equation that the local human populace is currently at war with fire giants then we have a situation that has changed dramatically.Since the (demi-)humans are at war with the fire giants and the PCs, presumably, belong to this group then they are killing the enemy in an act of war which is not in an of itself an evil act.If, instead, we state that the fire giants are marching through the frozen wastes of a mountain range the situation changes drastically again.What has happened now is that the fire giants, ogres and wolves are all removed from the natural habitat, we must assume that there is some reason for this removal. That reason could likely be that this group did not fit in with their civilization and therefor struck out on their own to create a new civilization. Maybe these are peace loving, poetry writting fire giants and ogres. OTOH these could also be a scouting group taking a letter of alegiance to the frost giants so that the frost and fire giants can team up on the (demi-)humans to wage war. However, since the PCs do not have enough information to know what is going on then killing the fire giants is an act of cold blooded racism.</blockquote>

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