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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 870306" data-attributes="member: 99">I'll just be honest with you RigaMortus, this last post of yours is making it extremely difficult to take your opinions on this matter seriously.Don't be silly.  The authorities in this case were acting in a rightful, legal manner.  The are NOT analogous to bandits jumping out of the bushes and attacking you without provocation or warning in an attempt to rob you.If the authorities managed to knock out the Thief during the scuffle and THEY CdG'd HIM then I think you could make a good case that they were acting in an Evil (or at least unlawful) manner.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />  Nobody is suggesting that there aren't other factors to consider.  Yes, contrived though it may be, your Geased slaveowner is perhaps entitled to a lesser punishment than death.  So what.  In general, depriving an innocent person of thier freedom for your own profit and benefit is Evil.  Those who kill such slaveowners are NOT.Dandy.  In the standard D&D game (the one that the Rules are built to support) the vast majority of creatures with the "always evil" descriptor in their alignment are of that alignment.  Ergo, if you are on the 8th level of Hell and you "CdG first and ask questions later" you are probably not at risk of losing your Good alignment.Nice backhanded insult about us not being original and creative though.  Appreciate that.As you were so quick to point out earlier, the vast prevalence of healing magic in the standard D&D world makes the "Blow of Mercy" a rather moot concept.  It also means that if you put a dangerous foe out of the fight that it is relatively easy for one of his comerades to heal him enough to rejoin the fight in fairly short order.  How would you feel if you forewent an opportunity to CdG a foe who was down who later got healed back up and killed a fellow party member or, worse yet, an innocent bystander?All of this makes me wonder:  Do you require that PC's be Good in your campaigns?  Or are you just as happy if they make Neutral or even Evil characters.  Because it seems that your standard for Good is almost impossibly high.  If most of the characters are good, I can only imagine that they spend a great deal of time and resources healing their enemies and then debating on the proper punishment for them and ultimately dragging them off to some authorities who are hopefully not too distant.In closing, I'll just say that if my various suppositions in the previous paragraph are true then I have absolutely no problem with it.  Your game, your rules.  But you seem determined to argue everybody else into agreeing with your version when the rules simply don't support it.  I don't think that's going to work.</blockquote>

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