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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5720616" data-attributes="member: 9037">It depends on if it is possible to turn the prisoners in without compromising the mission.If they can they usually try and turn them in. As a DM I don't try and screw over my players who show mercy by having the prisoners turn on them and make them wish they had never tried to spare them. There are times an act of mercy has later on been rewarded. They spared an Orc Chieftain's life later they were in big trouble having the living daylights kicked out of them by some lizardmen and the Orc Chieftain and his band of warriors saved their lives. Though I have been a ruthless DM. I had a group who insisted on killing all prisoners even though they were not evil just on a different side of a war. Some prisoners did escape and went back with tales of the ruthlessness of this group, They would torture for information, promise freedom and then kill them. Well one session a battle went bad for them and they surrendered I guess they thought because they were PCs they had plot protection. They were escorted back to the other side camp and summarily executed. When asked why this happened I pointed out that they had become infamous for their mistreatment of prisoners what did they expect.</blockquote>