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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1179441" data-attributes="member: 5171">1) "You tried to KILL me.  Yes, I lied to you about you getting to keep your crossbow.  Life is hard.  Remember that part where you SHOT me with it?"2) "You tried to KILL me.  I'm leaving you alive and taking your weapon.  I expect a thank-you card on important holidays."3) I can see a few reasons for the fighter to do what he did.  Maybe he thought that the dwarf, seeing the odds against him, would grumble and run off.  Maybe he wanted to see if the dwarf would grudgingly thank him and leave, or if the dwarf would impotently declare a blood-feud and promise retribution.  If you've got somebody who is still going to lunge at your throat even after you've freed him, you've got a mad dog who is gonna keep trying to kill you until you kill him.4) Same basic logic.  Can't say I'd do it myself as a person, but in a D&D world, if it was a matter of having someone who insisted on continuing to try and kill me, forcing me to waste spells HEALING HIM so that he could CONTINUE to try to kill me, and then knowing that I'd have to look over my shoulder while this psycho levels up and hires more friends, then yeah, I think he needs to die.(In real life, you have other avenues -- the guy can be locked up securely, can't resort to spells to save himself, and won't usually continue to attack in the face of overwhelming odds.)Can't say I feel hugely sorry for the guy who was part of the squad that attacked by surprise for pay.</blockquote>

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