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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tonym" data-source="post: 2555068" data-attributes="member: 4127">I'm as practical as the next guy when ridding the D&D world of evil monsters and their progeny, but if faced with the hypothetical situation quoted above, my PC would likely have pity on a lone orc baby.Which makes me wonder...would I also have pity if the young orc was 10 years old? And, if I did, would that be a stupid mistake?I direct the following questions to the folks who say baby orcs should be captured and raised to be Good...At what age does a young orc need to be killed, for the safety of society?  Take the movie Conan, for example.  Conan was about 10 or so when he saw his father and mother killed.  He was taken prisoner by the killers--not executed.  Years later, as an adult, Conan got his revenge when he killed his parents' killers and destroyed their society.Shouldn't I be worried that a captured orc child will avenge his parents in a like manner?If I should kill older orc children, at what age do I kill them?  Certainly I would kill the teenagers, right?  But what about a 10-year-old orc who saw his parents killed?  What about a 7-year-old orc?  A 5-year-old orc?  For arguements sake, let's assume the orc children in question register no evil alignment, they all saw their parents killed by the PCs, and they all said, in Orcish, "I will avenge my parents."  What then?Tony M</blockquote>