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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 5096052" data-attributes="member: 67338">Ok, so I have been running a Dresden game on Saturday nights in-between our 3e game. It is loosely based off the novels, and I had an interesting encounter…or so I thought. 5 necromancers have been recruited to do a ritual. Most are really bad guys… like no questions asked bad guys. But one was suppose to be different.   She is 18 years old, and two years ago she found she could talk to dead things. Being lonely and outcast as a child she made friends with the dead. She never did anything really big enough to get attention, so no one ever trained her.   Now she was approached by a supernatural entity that gave her money and limited training to do something… now she is in the area as one of those 5 necromancers.       When the PCs broke down her door, her fight or flight response was to run… she asked the spirits to protect her, and so they did. But PCs ran after and captured her. Then started turning her over to the white council to be executed. No one balked at her high crime being stealing a bed, talking to dead, and making 1 bad decision (Listening to the supernatural creature)… so we ran through the game, and after words I said I was surprised that 2 knights of the cross would not even consider saying something and I was told that was the real world…     OK so here is my disconnect. Harry Dresden, Murphy, Michael, ect… would never just let some 18 year old be killed. In the novels the idea of something like that would be hours of debate, and even if it came to it, and they had no choice… it would haunt them. But here I am told that not all good guys think that way. I was told Angel, or Buffy would let her die, and then given the clint eastwood example of good. So obviously I and my party on Saturday do not see eye to eye, but we kept going…     So what do you all think? Should the good guy give the person the chance to redeem themselves? Should the good guy think ‘well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> happens’ and just be fine?  Should a good aligned paladin (knight of the cross) be such a jaded veteran that this young girls death doesn’t effect him?</blockquote>

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