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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertliguori" data-source="post: 4464219" data-attributes="member: 47776">Domiel and his Slayers would take issue with this philosophy.  Exalted Good is quite down with murder, under the right circumstances.They're also down with inflicting horrible, tortuous fates on Evil critters (so long as the correct implements of suffering are used).  They also think that mind flayers come in boy and girl varieties and that poison is Evil, so looking to Exalted for consistency to any of Good, good, or reason is not the greatest of ideas.So, it was the will of Malar that Reskyn die.So what?It's probably the will of Malar that gravity pulls objects down instead of sideways.  That doesn't mean inverting gravity is good.Moreover, this is D&D.  In reality, we can slap a pair of shackles on a person, and pretty much neutralize the damage they can cause as an individual.  We can take someone prisoner without a great deal of risk.  In D&D, this is up there with atheism in the Realms in terms of poorly-justified beliefs.  Finally, the person they're trying to take prisoner is a shapeshifter, who ranks just under psionicist in terms of royal headache to keep locked up.  There is every possibility that Mr. Black Blood could escape and go eat/infect a few villages.  Things that keep that from happening are pretty much Good.  If Mr. Black Blood has so far displayed honor and a tendency to keep his word, then it can be an individual call whether to honor his surrender or not, but he is not in the position of a captured human in our world, and treating the two situations as morally-equivalent misses a whole lotta point.There was an evil monster.  There is now a lack of an evil monster.  There is now a lack of on opportunity to turn the evil monster into a good monster.  There is now an opportunity to turn the dead evil monster into an undead evil monster.  Just sayin'.You know, being a Conan-type is roleplaying, it's just playing a role you don't want him playing.  Is the problem that he's wandered off what you considered Exalted?  Would you have a problem with him replying "Fine.  I'll work Malar's will.  Just trade in these levels...OK.  I'm an evil scary werewolf.  Yar.  Now let's go eat some baddies." and continuing on his current path, but with an E on his character sheet instead of a G?If no, then you have a quick and simple solution.  "The cosmology of the world says you are evil.  Feel free to tell the cosmology of the world to go stuff itself.  You will have the standard cosmological consequences of being evil, etc., etc."If yes, stop saying "Killing surrendered foes is nonExalted." and say flat-out "I have a problem with you killing surrendered foes in-game."</blockquote>

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