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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2547828" data-attributes="member: 7624">I think these kinds of questions have to be considered in the game by the DM before they set this kind of situation up. I think that using standard D&D and its preposterously simplistic good/evil dynamic this was an evil act no matter what the circumstances. However in some settings, like Dark Sun, Conan, etc. there are different sensibilities and different assumptions. In a given setting, the killing of the goblin children may have well been the only option wandering adventurers could tale because in grittier settings these is no such thing as goblin orphanages and humans would rather kill the critters than take them into their home.In most fantasy settings such as FR or Krynn I have never seen any resources for the systematic rehabilitation of humanoid children. In fact, when the human and elven armies strike back against orc and goblin hordes they defacto leave thousands of humanoid orphans who will die of exposure, disease, starvation, or predators or in other manners far worse than a quick sword thrust.Does anyone ever believe that commonly a train of humanoid children is in tow behind the victorious humans, elves and dwarves? No, they are killed or scattered into the woods to die in other terrible ways. Such is the reality of war in any consistant setting. Even the good guys leave orphans goblin children to starve and hopefully die because they know that if these creatures survive they will wage a new war in another decade or two.I would say that this needs to be adjudicated based on the grittiness of the setting. If its a core campaign where D&D assumptions are assumed regularly fine the dwarf is a murderer but if the setting is more complex than that then he may have committed an act of mercy or at least did nothing worse than is always done to such creatures once their parents have been dispatched.Chris</blockquote>

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