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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7301764" data-attributes="member: 6777696">The term &quot;murderhobo&quot; is a commentary on D&amp;D and how some play it, not a commentary on murder. A mercenary character could be a murderhobo, if adventures basically took the form of, &quot;You have just been hired to go to this place and kill all the people/monsters in it. They are bad, it's fine. Ok, you've cleared out the dungeon. You get this many xp for the night, and the local Duke gives each of you 100 gp. Deduct 1gp each for your lodgings at the local inn. See you next week!&quot; A mercenary character would not be a murderhobo if adventures involved evaluating the clients, choosing which jobs to take and which jobs not to take, and spending time in places where the mercenary was not actively on contract and chose not to kill &quot;all the bad guys&quot; to take their stuff, because they only kill things when they are getting paid for it.Mercenaries are also more than capable of murdering people indiscriminately. Just because you get paid to do something doesn't mean you also don't do it in your spare time.Also, while murder might have legal definitions in most jurisdictions, it is also a word that, colloquially, is used to describe any killing that the speaker believes to be unjustified, even if that killing was performed &quot;lawfully&quot;. For instance, we frequently refer to mass executions performed by agents of totalitarian states, within a quasi-legal framework (such as Stalin's Soviet Union), as &quot;murder&quot;. So the fact that your character might have an in-game justification for why what they do is &quot;killing&quot; not &quot;murdering&quot;, we could still, at a distance say, &quot;Yeah, I mean, they just go into the homes of monsters and murder them.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redrick, post: 7301764, member: 6777696"] The term "murderhobo" is a commentary on D&D and how some play it, not a commentary on murder. A mercenary character could be a murderhobo, if adventures basically took the form of, "You have just been hired to go to this place and kill all the people/monsters in it. They are bad, it's fine. Ok, you've cleared out the dungeon. You get this many xp for the night, and the local Duke gives each of you 100 gp. Deduct 1gp each for your lodgings at the local inn. See you next week!" A mercenary character would not be a murderhobo if adventures involved evaluating the clients, choosing which jobs to take and which jobs not to take, and spending time in places where the mercenary was not actively on contract and chose not to kill "all the bad guys" to take their stuff, because they only kill things when they are getting paid for it. Mercenaries are also more than capable of murdering people indiscriminately. Just because you get paid to do something doesn't mean you also don't do it in your spare time. Also, while murder might have legal definitions in most jurisdictions, it is also a word that, colloquially, is used to describe any killing that the speaker believes to be unjustified, even if that killing was performed "lawfully". For instance, we frequently refer to mass executions performed by agents of totalitarian states, within a quasi-legal framework (such as Stalin's Soviet Union), as "murder". So the fact that your character might have an in-game justification for why what they do is "killing" not "murdering", we could still, at a distance say, "Yeah, I mean, they just go into the homes of monsters and murder them." [/QUOTE]

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