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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5729060" data-attributes="member: 9037">What I would do would depend on several things. The character I was playing, the other party members and the DM. I have played in games that nobody including the DM wants to deal with shades of gray they basically just want to kill things and take their stuff so in that game I would just kill the young ones and move on.Now in a more gray game it would really depend not just on my alignment  but how my character viewed life. In one game I played an elven sorcerer who believed in the sanctity of all life. She also believed in redemption. Faced with this kind of dilemma with two orphan Kobold babies she took them and raised them. So she would vote to spare the babies. The wizard I am playing right now is lawful good she would use her incredible knowledge skills have the party cleric detect evil on the young ones. Knowing that they are usually chaotic evil she would be practical and suggest that it would be best to destroy the young before they have a chance to grow up and become a danger. She is very practical. It is not that she believes killing is the only answer but she is not afraid to get her hands dirty in the cause of good.I am also playing an elven sorcerer in another game who is chaotic neutral she is bitter and cynical she wouldn't care one way or another but would do what she thought was best for her and the party. So if it was best to kill them she would kill them if it was best to make a deal she would make a deal. As for killing young of any species yes I would be comfortable killing children who had an evil alignment. Now if I was an evil character it would depend on a lot of things on if I would kill children. It would depend on how the character looked at life. I can see being ruthless and killing anyone who got in your way and I can also see being evil but not killing children because that is a line my character would not cross. In DnD if you use an alignment system evil is a real thing so I would have no hesitation of destroying it even if it wore the face of a child. I can also see trying to redeem the child. I don't think either answer is the wrong one.  I think it depends on your outlook on evil are you the smite and send to the abyss or are you more into saving souls and turning them to good. The problem with absolute alignment is that I don't believe you can channel evil into good. Which is why I don't use it in my games for sapient creatures. It is more interesting to me that things don't have an absolute alignment unless they are not sapient. So like I said in my games sapient lifeforms are neutral at birth neither good nor evil. Nature does play a role but so does nurturing.</blockquote>

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