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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2713574" data-attributes="member: 19675">I reiterate- unless the Paladin is Detecting Evil on every opponent he faces to determine whether he is not coerced or non-evil, he's acting the same as he did when he executed this halfling- judging him to be evil by his ACTIONS- here, aiding & abetting a night-time home invasion.If he IS doing so...then he's spending 3 rounds of every combat DE-ing, while his adventuring fellows are under attack.andand"Legitimate authority" would most likely allow a homeowner to kill someone engaged in or aiding someone commit a violent felony within that homeowner's abode, especially at night, especially accounting for a society in which "legitimate authority" response times would typically be measured in hours rather than minutes.Once again, killing a neutralized captive who committed a crime in a jurisdiction and time period in which the death penalty was probably allowable by law for that offense.AND, as I pointed out, a homeowner's killing of those involved in a night-time invasion of his home was something that was permissible by most secular and religious laws of the time period this game is patterned after- even if they were fleeing or neutralized.</blockquote>