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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 2732203" data-attributes="member: 3346">After some more thought about this, I think you have to analyze the action from each of the axis, lawful-chaotic and good-evil.  Good is the easy one to analyze... sacrificing innocents because they are in your way does not qualify as good, but neither does it qualify as evil since you think you exhausted other alternatives first ... it seems like a neutral action to me; it would only be an evil action if you had not exhausted other alternatives and actually wanted to blast the captain.  On Lawful-Chaotic, this seems like a chaotic action.  A Lawful solution would be to find some way of satisfying both authorities, vaporizing the captain is the opposite of being lawful; and it is such an extreme response (not charming or holding or fleeing) that it justifies Chaotic instead of just neutral.  So I would assess the action as Chaotic Neutral ... one step away from Chaotic Evil.That doesn't mean your sorceress's alignment should shift, this would just be one action in a sea of actions taken by your character.  I'm curious as to how the exalted member of the party and the two paladins reacted to your scorching of the Captain?  If one of those three had done the fireballing, I would have rated it as an evil act, with all of the consequences that follow from an exalted or paladin committing an evil act.  My reasoning would be the greater external vows that Paladins and Exalted have, should make it obvious that they should always look for an alternative to killing an innocent.  ("Do or Do Not, There is No Try")</blockquote>

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