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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 7977324" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Read carefully. The good will not engage in these unless dire circumstances calls for it. Good characters will not do it by themselves without the support of their liege. In addition, moral and psychological support will be needed. The good characters will try to let the non combatants go away as much as possible. Whatever the order given by the liege. Only evil characters will engage in such a behavior without any moral qualms. Think of it as modern soldiers. They will obey but they might get psychological problems. Think about Vietnam. Quite a few LG soldiers were part of napalming villages known to harbor vietcong sympatizers and they were in need of psychological aid. But they obeyed nonetheless. 2nd. Again shades of grey. If orcs are part of the good race in your campaign, then no good characters will ever do a genocide. Ever. Not even the neutral ones. The genocide we talk about here is the orc hordes we see in the Lord of the rings. These are desctructives and wholly evil creatures that will destroy/kill everything in sight (and even hidden if they can find it) without a second thought and even pleasure. A genocide against these will be seen as necessary, but distasteful. It becomes a matter of survival.3rdDo not apply modern morality to a medieval setting. Role play it with the mind set that is probably there and you will start to see things as they might have seen it. The crusades were about liberating Jerusalem but atrocities were committed. Entire villages were totally decimated. This was a small case genocide. Just like in my examples above.</blockquote>

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