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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1179971" data-attributes="member: 1210">Well, Herremann, here are my answers... YMMV, as always.1. The rogue can imply all he wants.  If he made actual promises (not implied promises) to the dwarf and he's lawful, he's slipped, but other than that, he could be any alignment.2. This depends on the standard in your campaign.  Do the pcs routinely loot defeated enemies?  Then it's probably not stealing in their minds.  Was there a law against what they did where they were?  Then anyone who was LN probably slipped a little, but it's easily justified (in this case) as self-defense (we need to keep our enemy from shooting at us again).  (Though a LN character would prolly argue that they should've taken the dwarf to the authorities instead of holding him themselves.)  If the wizard laid claim on the crossbow without going through the party's usual treasure division system then he probably slipped away from Lawful too.3.  The fighter didn't kill the dwarf, the dwarf effectively committed suicide.  The fighter sorta knew what would happen, but I'd say he acted in a pretty neutral manner (it doesn't sound like he attacked the dwarf after he let him go).  Letting him go- if his intent was truly to let the dwarf go free- was actually a pretty nice thing to do; it's not his fault the dwarf squandered his opportunity.4.  Yep, this was murder.  Maybe an evil action, but arguably neutral as self-defense.  Almost certainly against any laws in the area, so again this slips the character away from Law.So I'd say the situation is very complex, but not enough to change anyone's alignment, just shift the character's position within his alignment a little.  Since there's no paladin I don't think you have anything to worry about at this point.  Now if this became a pattern, I'd say the Lawful members of the group would shift to ethically Neutral (NG, N, NE).</blockquote>

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