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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4720102" data-attributes="member: 64209">Thanks Alzrius. I didn't schlep upstairs to get the MM.&nbsp;&nbsp;That said, unique (1) or very rare (&lt;1%, and probably a lot less when we compare that to unique- i.e. only one in existence) is a pretty reasonable casualty of war when your job is to go out and kill stuff every day (i.e a D&amp;D adventurer).&nbsp;Add to that that the very rare or unique individual is just as likely to be LE, NE, N, CN, or LN...and all of those are reasonably acceptable kills in D&amp;D.&nbsp;Mathematically, if you give all the other alignments an equal chance, the individual who is not CE still has a 5/8 chance of being an acceptable non-good kill&nbsp;Statistically, if you use my 1% or less, and my 5/8 chance, for every 267 acceptable dragons killed one good dragon would be killed.&nbsp;&nbsp;In real life, I couldn't live with that. In D&amp;D, I TOTALLY could. &nbsp;This was not problematic because of killing an evil race in D&amp;D. THAT IS THE GOAL in D&amp;D, much of the time. This WAS evil for a number of other reasons.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyone who has ever shot a kobold brigand (or, heck a human brigand) in the back while they are running away from their botched highway robbery should appreciate that the morals in D&amp;D are a bit different than in our world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 4720102, member: 64209"] Thanks Alzrius. I didn't schlep upstairs to get the MM. That said, unique (1) or very rare (<1%, and probably a lot less when we compare that to unique- i.e. only one in existence) is a pretty reasonable casualty of war when your job is to go out and kill stuff every day (i.e a D&D adventurer). Add to that that the very rare or unique individual is just as likely to be LE, NE, N, CN, or LN...and all of those are reasonably acceptable kills in D&D. Mathematically, if you give all the other alignments an equal chance, the individual who is not CE still has a 5/8 chance of being an acceptable non-good kill Statistically, if you use my 1% or less, and my 5/8 chance, for every 267 acceptable dragons killed one good dragon would be killed. In real life, I couldn't live with that. In D&D, I TOTALLY could. This was not problematic because of killing an evil race in D&D. THAT IS THE GOAL in D&D, much of the time. This WAS evil for a number of other reasons. Anyone who has ever shot a kobold brigand (or, heck a human brigand) in the back while they are running away from their botched highway robbery should appreciate that the morals in D&D are a bit different than in our world. [/QUOTE]

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