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<blockquote data-quote="Lhorgrim" data-source="post: 2144145" data-attributes="member: 12222">I was a player in an old (1990) 2E campaign that had a few similar moral question situations.&nbsp; Our party handled it nearly the opposite of the way yours did.&nbsp; We were all good aligned, and we needed information from the two prisoners we had taken.&nbsp; We questioned them in a quid pro quo fashion.&nbsp; You give us the info, and we ensure your safety and fair trial.&nbsp; The DM ruled that the prisoners were not particularly frightened by this line of questioning, and reasoned that if we weren't going to threaten them then we were probably going to take them in alive whether they answered our questions or not.We took them back to the nearest friendly town, and turned them over to the authorities.&nbsp; The DM ruled that the authorities got the information we needed from the prisoners ( perhaps using the &quot;comfy pillow&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )&nbsp; He never told us how they got the info, and we were tired enough of the sidetrack that we did not ask.We then resumed our mission, only three in-game days after taking our prisoners. :\ To this day, I don't know what our DM expected us to do in that situation.&nbsp; But, I do know that our enemies all fought to the death for the rest of the adventure and we were unable to capture any more prisoners.I think it is important for the campaign, for the players to know what you(the DM) think is the &quot;right&quot; way to handle the prisoner situation.&nbsp; It is easy to send mixed messages if bad things happen no matter what the PCs do.&nbsp; If they kill them they get an XP penalty. If they take them along and you rule that they somehow alert their compatriots and the party gets ambushed, then the players may second guess their decision to bring them along.&nbsp; If they let them go into the wilderness without the appropriate equipment it's the same as slitting their throats.I understand that moral dilemma situations may have no &quot;good&quot; resolution, but the players need to learn what the &quot;best&quot; resolution is in your world.That being said, I am very surprised that players that have been in your campaign for such a long time hadn't learned how to handle a situation like this before now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lhorgrim, post: 2144145, member: 12222"] I was a player in an old (1990) 2E campaign that had a few similar moral question situations. Our party handled it nearly the opposite of the way yours did. We were all good aligned, and we needed information from the two prisoners we had taken. We questioned them in a quid pro quo fashion. You give us the info, and we ensure your safety and fair trial. The DM ruled that the prisoners were not particularly frightened by this line of questioning, and reasoned that if we weren't going to threaten them then we were probably going to take them in alive whether they answered our questions or not. We took them back to the nearest friendly town, and turned them over to the authorities. The DM ruled that the authorities got the information we needed from the prisoners ( perhaps using the "comfy pillow" ;) ) He never told us how they got the info, and we were tired enough of the sidetrack that we did not ask. We then resumed our mission, only three in-game days after taking our prisoners. :\ To this day, I don't know what our DM expected us to do in that situation. But, I do know that our enemies all fought to the death for the rest of the adventure and we were unable to capture any more prisoners. I think it is important for the campaign, for the players to know what you(the DM) think is the "right" way to handle the prisoner situation. It is easy to send mixed messages if bad things happen no matter what the PCs do. If they kill them they get an XP penalty. If they take them along and you rule that they somehow alert their compatriots and the party gets ambushed, then the players may second guess their decision to bring them along. If they let them go into the wilderness without the appropriate equipment it's the same as slitting their throats. I understand that moral dilemma situations may have no "good" resolution, but the players need to learn what the "best" resolution is in your world. That being said, I am very surprised that players that have been in your campaign for such a long time hadn't learned how to handle a situation like this before now. [/QUOTE]

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