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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 866533" data-attributes="member: 259">Drawmack, I think that's an excellent analysis, with one caveat:&nbsp; different campaigns interpret the &quot;usually&quot; alignments differently.IMC, characters who engage in indiscriminate killing of other creatures based on their species are in for a world of angst.&nbsp; But other campaigns take the &quot;usually evil&quot; to mean, &quot;most tribes of these creatures are evil.&quot;&nbsp; Furthermore, a group may not be engaged in a formal war, but rather may have a centuries-old history of hostilities.&nbsp; If since time immemorial giants have been coming out of the hills to pick up a few villagers for their stewpots, and if there are no recorded cases of giants coming out of the hills to play pattycake with villagers, then adventurers might be justified in killing the fire giants in a sneaky raid.&nbsp; Especially if the adventurers are much less powerful than the giants, and especially if the giants are very close to being able to kill innocent people.In closing, I'll point out that our fictional accounts of giant-killers generally rely on using trickiness to off the brutes:&nbsp; Jack the Giant-Killer would dig pits, disguise himself, perform lethal pranks, or slit the giant's throats as they slept.&nbsp; He was certainly a folk-hero.&nbsp; Not a King Arthur, but I don't think the storytellers would've considered him as evil.Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 866533, member: 259"] Drawmack, I think that's an excellent analysis, with one caveat: different campaigns interpret the "usually" alignments differently. IMC, characters who engage in indiscriminate killing of other creatures based on their species are in for a world of angst. But other campaigns take the "usually evil" to mean, "most tribes of these creatures are evil." Furthermore, a group may not be engaged in a formal war, but rather may have a centuries-old history of hostilities. If since time immemorial giants have been coming out of the hills to pick up a few villagers for their stewpots, and if there are no recorded cases of giants coming out of the hills to play pattycake with villagers, then adventurers might be justified in killing the fire giants in a sneaky raid. Especially if the adventurers are much less powerful than the giants, and especially if the giants are very close to being able to kill innocent people. In closing, I'll point out that our fictional accounts of giant-killers generally rely on using trickiness to off the brutes: Jack the Giant-Killer would dig pits, disguise himself, perform lethal pranks, or slit the giant's throats as they slept. He was certainly a folk-hero. Not a King Arthur, but I don't think the storytellers would've considered him as evil. Daniel [/QUOTE]

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