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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnthonyJ" data-source="post: 1198821" data-attributes="member: 13807">Hm.This depends on your character's specific interpretation of legality, but while LG characters may choose to break the law in pursuit of a higher good, LN characters generally should not.  In terms of honor:The situation with the cohort is clearly dishonorable.The fact that the (presumably lawful) monk did not object is a failure of alignment.  Given that it was supposedly honorable combat with a member of his own order, that is arguably sufficient cause to have him removed from the order and stripped of his alignment (a GM should normally warn the player in situations like that, however).Did the characters assume that the bounty hunter was lying?  If so, that was an attack on the honor of the NPC; again, this tends to be a strike against the monk.  If trial by combat is normal for the order, however, there may be nothing wrong (in the eyes of the order) with the duel.It would appear that the captive was in fact a bounty hunter working for the government; as such, unless the PCs feel that they are at war with the government (in which case he should be treated as a prisoner of war) the Lawful action is probably to go with him back to the authorities that hired him to try and sort out the situation (though merely releasing him and finding an advocate to check into the situation would be acceptable to many lawful characters, particularly if the government is known to be corrupt).The paladin may, by the standards of his own religion, have the right to judge the prisoner.  By the standards of the local government, he probably does not (though he might).  Which authority one defers to depends on the character; however, characters who are not particularly religious, or who don't share the paladin's religion, should probably favor the standards of the local government.  A similar situation exists for the monk; given that he's of the same order as the other monk, he probably feels he has the right to make a judgement (and there's a decent chance that the local government is fine with that), but he has no reason to defer to the paladin when it comes to judgement, unless they're both of the same religion.In either case, one might question whether the judgement made was correct.  What, exactly, was the NPC guilty of that merited death?  This is possibly sufficient cause to get either the monk or the paladin stripped of status and alignment.Finally, a lot of this stuff is a GM call.  It's worth asking the GM for his attitude about what LN (and LG) means.</blockquote>

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