Was this wrong?
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Li Shenron
Legend
Or... your character could have made a mistake. What happens next? Is she simply going to say "oh well... I spare most of the surrenders, I can afford to live with a few exceptions, I'm still a good gal after all" or is she perhaps going to feel sorry and guilty about this for a long time? 
That could make the difference in the end.
That could make the difference in the end.
I may be wrong, but I'm somehow left with the feeling that if a guy had posted this topic someone would have raked him over the coals by now for playing CN as "yet another psychotic, do-anything-I-want disruptive player"...
I agree with Li, if you feel it was out of character and a mistake, then play it so. Fell remorse, develop a neurosis, hunt down his family and atone for your misstep. Or, hunt down his family and kill them, too, you psychotic, you
I agree with Li, if you feel it was out of character and a mistake, then play it so. Fell remorse, develop a neurosis, hunt down his family and atone for your misstep. Or, hunt down his family and kill them, too, you psychotic, you
BSF
Explorer
Was it wrong? *shrug* Hard to say. I can understand where the PC would have wanted to get that last shot in. Depending on circumstances, it might not have been very easy to accept a prisoner. A CN with Good tendencies will probably react with a little less compassion than a good character with neutral tendencies.
The NPC killed people, took a shot at you guys and then decided that throwing down his weapon was the better part of valor. Sounds to me like there was at least an equal chance that he thought he could get away later when the group, presumably, passed him off to common guards. Who is to say you were wrong?
Besides, an eye for an eye and all that. He shot you, you shot him. His tough luck for not being able to take it.
Should your character feel guilty? *shrug* I don't know, that's your story to tell.
The NPC killed people, took a shot at you guys and then decided that throwing down his weapon was the better part of valor. Sounds to me like there was at least an equal chance that he thought he could get away later when the group, presumably, passed him off to common guards. Who is to say you were wrong?
Besides, an eye for an eye and all that. He shot you, you shot him. His tough luck for not being able to take it.
Should your character feel guilty? *shrug* I don't know, that's your story to tell.
Delemental
First Post
If you look at this from an alignment perspective, your character commited an act which was probably not good (I hesitate to call it evil, since there's the 'heat of the moment' arguments and such that have already been made). Given your tendency to be a good person, perhaps it's acts like these that keep you in CN territory instead of switching to CG.
In other words, you could build off the incident for purposes of character development. Maybe your character tries to be a good person, but occasionally just gives in to these impulses she has. It then becomes a struggle to explain and/or justify these 'out of character' moments both to others and to yourself.
It might even lead to some interesting situations down the road if you incorporated this into your character. Perhaps there are parts of the world where people have a decidedly negative opinion of your character, because at some point in the past you gave into one of your impulses and ended up doing something that wasn't just not good, it was Not Good.
In other words, you could build off the incident for purposes of character development. Maybe your character tries to be a good person, but occasionally just gives in to these impulses she has. It then becomes a struggle to explain and/or justify these 'out of character' moments both to others and to yourself.
It might even lead to some interesting situations down the road if you incorporated this into your character. Perhaps there are parts of the world where people have a decidedly negative opinion of your character, because at some point in the past you gave into one of your impulses and ended up doing something that wasn't just not good, it was Not Good.
For FWIW the LG freedom-fighter I played until recently in the Midnight setting (Zana Than, RIP) 
would often not accept the surrender of evil enemies; orcs & legates & such, she'd execute them. She once executed a captive who might have endangered a night attack against superior forces the party was about to attempt, though she felt bad about that - the captive was human (like her), and a minor minion of the traitor Zoidan she was after, but she felt it was necessary as the lesser of two evils.
BTW the Geneva Convention in no way obliges you to _accept_ someone's surrender, though you can't accept it & then kill them. In Zana's case, if she _gave her word_ not to kill someone if they surrendered, she would keep it any cost. So when she offered quarter to Zoidan to stop him killing more PCs (he'd killed one), and he accepted, she took him prisoner and kept him safe from the CG party members, returning him to her superiors for interrogation & judgement.
Maybe it's the Midnight setting, but I never felt I violated Zana's LG alignment.
would often not accept the surrender of evil enemies; orcs & legates & such, she'd execute them. She once executed a captive who might have endangered a night attack against superior forces the party was about to attempt, though she felt bad about that - the captive was human (like her), and a minor minion of the traitor Zoidan she was after, but she felt it was necessary as the lesser of two evils. BTW the Geneva Convention in no way obliges you to _accept_ someone's surrender, though you can't accept it & then kill them. In Zana's case, if she _gave her word_ not to kill someone if they surrendered, she would keep it any cost. So when she offered quarter to Zoidan to stop him killing more PCs (he'd killed one), and he accepted, she took him prisoner and kept him safe from the CG party members, returning him to her superiors for interrogation & judgement.
Maybe it's the Midnight setting, but I never felt I violated Zana's LG alignment.
Was it wrong? Well, avoiding the moral perspective, I'm gonna say no. Even in real life people have lapses of judgment, temporary insanity, or are just having a bad day and snap and do something totally out of character for themselves. Such is life. If you want to roleplay lamenting this, having a personal struggle, etc. then go for it. Chaotic Neutral allows a lot of leeway. Don't beat yourself up, you weren't wrong.
He had a knife...I saw it, its in his boot. 
I don't see issue with it, it was a single laspe as Henry said, passion got the better of your character. As long as it goes not keep occuring not a problem, it is not like he was running away and you had to drag the body back into the house.
I don't see issue with it, it was a single laspe as Henry said, passion got the better of your character. As long as it goes not keep occuring not a problem, it is not like he was running away and you had to drag the body back into the house.
CyberSpyder
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Killing someone who surrenders to you is well within chaotic good behavior now?S'mon said:It sounds like your PC is pretty strongly CG (not CN) and committed a slightly CN act, but one still well within CG.
It certainly shouldn't push you into CE on the basis of that one action, but it's definitely a bit of an impulse in that direction. Of course, it sounds like most of your other actions are pushing you towards CG, so you don't have too much to worry about on that score.
