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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bonethug0108" data-source="post: 3969521" data-attributes="member: 58528">Aye, good point. Some people would have meet non-evil orcs, but I guess not everyone would have. If you grew up around a tribe of evil orcs and never meet any good orcs, though, I guess your logical conclusion would be that all orcs are evil and should be destroyed.So now do you follow this knowledge and be wrong about it, killing an innocent. You don't know you're wrong, but the dm would because if he put baby orcs in the game, he would know the alignment.So what's a dm to do in this case. The player did act pretty hastily. Did he really have to kill the babies? They didn't commit any evil. Just because you suspect someone will commit evil does not give you the right to kill them. It would be like me killing a murderer's baby just because I think they will grow up to be a mass murderer. After all, it's in the gene's, right?So I would rule it as the character was being very evil and as such would lose any powers if he were playing a good alignment restricted class. The player would then be upset because he saw it as trying to fight evil with no mercy.So many ways to interpret things. That is why alignment is bad in 3e.</blockquote>