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<blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3472703" data-attributes="member: 48692">QFT for the goblin/human part, I guess, although in any and every case IRL I would agree with you that killing the child is wrong and immoral, regardless of who its parents are, when it comes to real life. Really, this was just an attempt to darken the world and add some shades of grey.&nbsp; If you were one of my players, I would have explained this to you beforehand, and if you'd expressed discomfort, I would have just dropped the requirement, since it wasn't that important to me.&nbsp; Either that, or we could have come up with a compromise-your paladin is part of a branch of the church that believes this is evil.&nbsp; Historically and even today, real-world religions have deep faultlines and disagreements on doctrine, and I see no reason why fantasy religions should have them either.&nbsp; Just look at the disagreements between Catholics and Protestants, or between Sunnis and Sh'ites in Islam-in both cases, they've been going on for centuries, even though both quarrelling branches of the faith share a belief in God/Allah.&nbsp; Of course, that doesn't keep NPC dwarves and their religions from harboring such feelings, which of course could make for good RPing between us.&nbsp; Again, as with the restrictions on women and demihumans, PCs would be more than welcome to go against the grain and have dissenting opinions on what to do with humanoid noncombatants.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CruelSummerLord, post: 3472703, member: 48692"] QFT for the goblin/human part, I guess, although in any and every case IRL I would agree with you that killing the child is wrong and immoral, regardless of who its parents are, when it comes to real life. Really, this was just an attempt to darken the world and add some shades of grey. If you were one of my players, I would have explained this to you beforehand, and if you'd expressed discomfort, I would have just dropped the requirement, since it wasn't that important to me. Either that, or we could have come up with a compromise-your paladin is part of a branch of the church that believes this is evil. Historically and even today, real-world religions have deep faultlines and disagreements on doctrine, and I see no reason why fantasy religions should have them either. Just look at the disagreements between Catholics and Protestants, or between Sunnis and Sh'ites in Islam-in both cases, they've been going on for centuries, even though both quarrelling branches of the faith share a belief in God/Allah. Of course, that doesn't keep NPC dwarves and their religions from harboring such feelings, which of course could make for good RPing between us. Again, as with the restrictions on women and demihumans, PCs would be more than welcome to go against the grain and have dissenting opinions on what to do with humanoid noncombatants. [/QUOTE]

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