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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2521712" data-attributes="member: 707"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Actually, I think I didn't quite make myself clear.  I wouldn't introduce a God of Sheep.  Rather I'm suggesting that sacrificing them on a regular basis would draw the ire of the God of the Harvest, or the God of Nature, or the Goddess of the Forest.  Or all three.  And it doesn't have to stop there.  These adventurers are causing unwilling creatures pain, regularly, for their own benefit.  It's not something any good diety is going to sanction.This doesn't mean that all of Heaven is going to be up in arms over the cause of the poor sheep.  But I can definitely see a particularly zealous demi-god or solar deciding that the PCs need to be stopped.  As someone else said, the ends never justify the means, and torturing living creatures is never acceptable.  Unless they used Speak with Animals and got the sheeps' permission to use them as living mine detectors, they're doing something wrong.  (And what sheep is going to give permission to be herded to its death?)In all honesty, I think what I'd probably do first is tell my players, "listen guys, I think your tactic is cheesy and I don't like it.  I'd like you guys to cut out the animal 'splodin' and get back to classic heroic adventuring."If that didn't work...the celestials.  I've always wanted to see how PCs would fare against astral devas, trumpet archons, etc. etc.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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