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<blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 3327458" data-attributes="member: 39813"><p>It depends on what "registering evil" means in your campaign. Does it mean they have a predisposition to evil, have committed evil acts, are there degrees of evil such that at some point one is beyond redemption? As another said, the Paladin's religion should have figured this out long ago, and I'm sure it was in his ethics 101 reading. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>IMC I don't use hard wired alignments (or really D&D alignments in general) so anything that registers as evil has knowingly committed evil acts and probably enjoyed it. The only creatures that are inherently evil are of a non-natural extra-planar nature and they don't have children or offspring as we know them, so the dilema doesn't arise.</p><p></p><p>The dilema that could arise, is in the killing of the parents of the children or those that are on the edge. </p><p>Do you spare the orc women who defintively register as evil because they care for the innocent children? </p><p>What of the adolescent orc who has been raised to believe in torture and rapine, is he beyond redemption? </p><p>Do you have a duty to aid the orc women & children once you've slain all the defenders and hunters of the tribe? </p><p>What do you do when the local villagers, otherwise good folks, want to kill all the orcs in revenge? Do you use lethal force or any force to protect the orc children? </p><p>What if not slaying the orc women could seriously compromise your mission that serves a "greater" good?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rothe, post: 3327458, member: 39813"] It depends on what "registering evil" means in your campaign. Does it mean they have a predisposition to evil, have committed evil acts, are there degrees of evil such that at some point one is beyond redemption? As another said, the Paladin's religion should have figured this out long ago, and I'm sure it was in his ethics 101 reading. :) IMC I don't use hard wired alignments (or really D&D alignments in general) so anything that registers as evil has knowingly committed evil acts and probably enjoyed it. The only creatures that are inherently evil are of a non-natural extra-planar nature and they don't have children or offspring as we know them, so the dilema doesn't arise. The dilema that could arise, is in the killing of the parents of the children or those that are on the edge. Do you spare the orc women who defintively register as evil because they care for the innocent children? What of the adolescent orc who has been raised to believe in torture and rapine, is he beyond redemption? Do you have a duty to aid the orc women & children once you've slain all the defenders and hunters of the tribe? What do you do when the local villagers, otherwise good folks, want to kill all the orcs in revenge? Do you use lethal force or any force to protect the orc children? What if not slaying the orc women could seriously compromise your mission that serves a "greater" good? [/QUOTE]
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