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<blockquote data-quote="kdogg3403" data-source="post: 4852613" data-attributes="member: 84374">I wanted to run this past you all and see if this player would still be considered good alignment.Our party came across a group of hobgoblins attacking a halfling. The good aligned player told them to halt. Upon hearing his words the hobgoblins looked up and were startled by our group and proceeded to run away. After checking on the halfling we learned that the hobgoblins that were attacking him were in fact slave traders. The good player, wanting to take out this evil creatures, decided to set off after them. (Somehow, even though they took off on foot 5 mintues ahead of us, it took us an hour to catch up to them on horseback. But that's a mater for the DM. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )So we see them running ahead of us on the road. The good player takes his horse and runs through them instantly killing two of the 5, and blooding another with his bow after he stopped in front of them.After the &quot;battle&quot; was over, I looked over at him and said in jest, &quot;I'm not sure but I think you just took some negative alignment points for that one.&quot;His defense was that he is a good aligned player and they are evil creatures who are even more evil because they are slave traders.So does attacking someone who has their back to you, that is no imediate threat to you or your party fall in line with being of good alignment? Even if they are evil creatures? Or am I confusing lawful good with good?Again, this is more my curiosity thatn anything, I found the whole thing just rather funny. I kept picturing Neverwinter Knights when you would do something that went against your alignment and the negative points would show up over head.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kdogg3403, post: 4852613, member: 84374"] I wanted to run this past you all and see if this player would still be considered good alignment. Our party came across a group of hobgoblins attacking a halfling. The good aligned player told them to halt. Upon hearing his words the hobgoblins looked up and were startled by our group and proceeded to run away. After checking on the halfling we learned that the hobgoblins that were attacking him were in fact slave traders. The good player, wanting to take out this evil creatures, decided to set off after them. (Somehow, even though they took off on foot 5 mintues ahead of us, it took us an hour to catch up to them on horseback. But that's a mater for the DM. :) ) So we see them running ahead of us on the road. The good player takes his horse and runs through them instantly killing two of the 5, and blooding another with his bow after he stopped in front of them. After the "battle" was over, I looked over at him and said in jest, "I'm not sure but I think you just took some negative alignment points for that one." His defense was that he is a good aligned player and they are evil creatures who are even more evil because they are slave traders. So does attacking someone who has their back to you, that is no imediate threat to you or your party fall in line with being of good alignment? Even if they are evil creatures? Or am I confusing lawful good with good? Again, this is more my curiosity thatn anything, I found the whole thing just rather funny. I kept picturing Neverwinter Knights when you would do something that went against your alignment and the negative points would show up over head. [/QUOTE]

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