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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2144984" data-attributes="member: 307">The characters and the players should be ashamed in this situation. The characters, because they behaved in an evil fashion, and the players because, despite playing characters who are supposed to be &quot;good&quot; (and probably cheerfully claimed any benefits that accrue with that decision) they had their characters behave in an evil fashion, and then had the gall to get angry with the DM when he pointed that out, and get huffy about it. Killing prisoners isn't even a really gray area, it is pretty much a textbook case of &quot;evil&quot;.However, no matter how you cut it, what they did falls into the 'evil' category with respect to the morality implanted in D&amp;D. Hence, they arenot playing 'good' characters, and those characters should have their alignments shifted.And then tried to argue that their evil actions actually weren't. If they has responded &quot;yeah, what our characters did was evil, but we didn't think we had a choice&quot;, that's one thing. Responding with venom and anger when they were called on their actions is a problem.There are right choices and wrong choices in every situation, sometimes the right choice is not the expedient one. If all choices were equally valid, then you would never have moral dilemmas, since the most expedient choice would always be the best one to make. Sometimes the &quot;good&quot; choice is difficult to adhere to, but that's the nature of &quot;good&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 2144984, member: 307"] The characters [i]and[/i] the players should be ashamed in this situation. The characters, because they behaved in an evil fashion, and the players because, despite playing characters who are supposed to be "good" (and probably cheerfully claimed any benefits that accrue with that decision) they had their characters behave in an evil fashion, and then had the gall to get angry with the DM when he pointed that out, and get huffy about it. Killing prisoners isn't even a really gray area, it is pretty much a textbook case of "evil". [i][/i] However, no matter how you cut it, what they did falls into the 'evil' category with respect to the morality implanted in D&D. Hence, they arenot playing 'good' characters, and those characters should have their alignments shifted. [i][/i] And then tried to argue that their evil actions actually weren't. If they has responded "yeah, what our characters did was evil, but we didn't think we had a choice", that's one thing. Responding with venom and anger when they were called on their actions is a problem. [i][/i] There are right choices and wrong choices in every situation, sometimes the right choice is not the expedient one. If all choices were equally valid, then you would never have moral dilemmas, since the most expedient choice would always be the best one to make. Sometimes the "good" choice is difficult to adhere to, but that's the nature of "good". [/QUOTE]

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