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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2151621" data-attributes="member: 259">It seems to me that you're assuming here that the tied-up soldiers were no threat.&nbsp; As I argued in a previous post, they were a threat. If they described the PCs to their Zhent allies, then the gnomish village stood a greater chance of falling; if the PCs carted them around, then the gnomish village stood a greater chance of falling.&nbsp; So the fact that they were tied up didn't make them no longer a threat.&nbsp;And they were a threat, not by their essence, but by their acts:&nbsp; it was because they'd chosen to be part of an organization that would hunt down and murder heroes that they found themselves in this predicament.&nbsp; They'd set up an ambush in an effort to murder the heroes, and they found themselves in this predicament.&nbsp; They'd chosen to be a threat.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I think you're looking at it through modern eyes.&nbsp; As I've said before, in many fantasy milieux, there's a frontier justice that takes precedence, due to the relative powerlessness of the courts.&nbsp; If someone attacks you, then they've removed themselves from the protection of the law, and you do have the legal right to dispose of them as you see fit.&nbsp; Twofalls has already said that the PCs had not received instruction to the contrary, had never received guidance on how they were expected to deal with prisoners; and so I think it's entirely in-keeping with a LG perspective to believe that the frontier justice model applies instead of the courtroom justice model.&nbsp;&nbsp;This sounds as if it's arguing for all CG characters to be pacifists.&nbsp; Am I missing something here?&nbsp;Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 2151621, member: 259"] It seems to me that you're assuming here that the tied-up soldiers were no threat. As I argued in a previous post, they [b]were[/b] a threat. If they described the PCs to their Zhent allies, then the gnomish village stood a greater chance of falling; if the PCs carted them around, then the gnomish village stood a greater chance of falling. So the fact that they were tied up didn't make them no longer a threat. And they were a threat, not by their essence, but by their acts: it was because they'd chosen to be part of an organization that would hunt down and murder heroes that they found themselves in this predicament. They'd set up an ambush in an effort to murder the heroes, and they found themselves in this predicament. They'd chosen to be a threat. I think you're looking at it through modern eyes. As I've said before, in many fantasy milieux, there's a frontier justice that takes precedence, due to the relative powerlessness of the courts. If someone attacks you, then they've removed themselves from the protection of the law, and you [b]do[/b] have the legal right to dispose of them as you see fit. [b]Twofalls[/b] has already said that the PCs had not received instruction to the contrary, had never received guidance on how they were expected to deal with prisoners; and so I think it's entirely in-keeping with a LG perspective to believe that the frontier justice model applies instead of the courtroom justice model. This sounds as if it's arguing for all CG characters to be pacifists. Am I missing something here? Daniel [/QUOTE]

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