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<blockquote data-quote="Nareau" data-source="post: 867261" data-attributes="member: 969">What were you thinking?Why did you even bother to specify that you were looking for &quot;rules-based&quot; answers?&nbsp; You've been around long enough that you should realize that almost no one heeds these kinds of requests.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But I'll try:&nbsp; Say it with me folks,&quot;From the SRD:&quot;&nbsp;Assuming you're not CdG'ing any innocent ogres for pay, it's not evil. &nbsp;Well, CdG does pretty much fall under the heading of &quot;hurting, oppressing, and killing others.&quot;&nbsp; But that's the implication, not the definition.&nbsp; So not an evil act here.&nbsp;No mention of it being evil here either.&nbsp; The absence of evidence doesn't prove anything.&nbsp; However, the fact that several acts are defined as [Evil] (certain spells, rebuking undead, and the like), we can infer by omission that this act is not [Evil].There aren't any more relevant passages in the DMG.So I'm convinced that the answer to your question is NO.&nbsp; There is no rules-based evidence that Coup de Grace is an inherently evil act.&nbsp; However, according to the alignment rules, it is possible to perform an evil CdG.Spider</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nareau, post: 867261, member: 969"] [b]What were you thinking?[/b] Why did you even bother to specify that you were looking for "rules-based" answers? You've been around long enough that you should realize that almost no one heeds these kinds of requests. :) But I'll try: Say it with me folks, "From the SRD:" Assuming you're not CdG'ing any innocent ogres for pay, it's not evil. Well, CdG does pretty much fall under the heading of "hurting, oppressing, and killing others." But that's the implication, not the definition. So not an evil act here. No mention of it being evil here either. The absence of evidence doesn't prove anything. However, the fact that several acts [b]are[/b] defined as [Evil] (certain spells, rebuking undead, and the like), we can infer by omission that this act is [b]not[/b] [Evil]. There aren't any more relevant passages in the DMG. So I'm convinced that the answer to your question is NO. There is no rules-based evidence that Coup de Grace is an inherently evil act. However, according to the alignment rules, it is possible to perform an evil CdG. Spider [/QUOTE]

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