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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 4621215" data-attributes="member: 1956">Well, basically, D&D is a game of killing. Even if you don't kill people, your comrades will kill foes you have disabled. You are assisting killing. So IMHO true pacifist don't work well in typical campaign.There are several other options I can think of,1. Oath bound oneYou are some lawful (possibly LN or LE) character bound by some oath, rule, or tradition from your mage school, religion, etc. That rule prohibit you to, say, "Kill or harm creatures with your spells." As a lawful character, you keep that rule but do anything not strictly written in that rule. It is like some Muslim who never drink alcohol as it is prohibited by Koran but use LSD or other drugs as nothing about those drugs are written in Koran.2. Dirty work is for lowlivesYou are snobbish noble type who thinks direct violence and killing are works for lower-class people. So you don't commit such dirty works by yourself unless it is needed to protect your precious life (far much precious than others').3. Don't have courage to kill by yourselfYou are coward and don't have courage to commit direct violence. So you can't take or use directly violent spells. You can be a naive maiden, or a coward scholarly wizard.4. Just that is your taste.You just don't like direct attack spells for some reason. Or you just really like non-direct attack spells. It is not that you don't like violence or something. It is just that you like or dislike some type of spells. You can even be a sadist or a trickster who think that directly killing creature is not so fun nor smart.</blockquote>

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