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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 1194894" data-attributes="member: 3087">My group considers me harsh on the alignment thing but I'm confused as to why you would think anyone would alignment shift over this (maybe the aristocrat if they were really really heartless about the life they were taking).The dwarf was an assassin, a hired killer who takes peoples lives for money. He -should- spend the rest of his life in prison, or at least until he's been rehabilitiated. He's also obviously seriously mentally deranged (unless the crossbow is a cursed magical item which forced him to aquire it to the point of obviously suicidal acts).Frankly he has no right to the weapon, anything people say to him about giving him back his crossbow with an eye toward finding out about other evil creatures is fine. I would have difficulty shifting even a paladin over what happened.The fighter was not responcible for the dwarf's death. He was very intelligent about how he handled it. He freed the dwarf and gave him a choice. The situation was "if the dwarf is in fact an insane killer who can't comprehend the world around him then he will be killed. Otherwise he'll probably be captured and tied up and we'll have a better idea about his character".The dwarf was a a demented psycotic who berserkly attacks people. In the real world you would put him maximum security mental institution. In a lawless pirate city, in D&D you give him a couple of chances and then you either kill him or you let him kill others.</blockquote>

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