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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2151902" data-attributes="member: 259">I'm assuming that the PCs, in flying toward the sorceress, planned on getting into a fight with her--is this correct?&nbsp; If they'd killed her in the course of this fight, would they have committed murder?&nbsp; After all, it wasn't self-defense:&nbsp; they could've easily avoided the fight simply by not approaching her.&nbsp;If it wouldn't have been murder, what relevant laws or ethical considerations would've made this be the case?&nbsp; Does the law exempt all undead from its protection?&nbsp; Had the sorceress been living, would seeking her out to defeat her in battle (almost certainly killing her in the process) have constituted murder, either under the law or under a moral code?&nbsp;Why or why not?&nbsp;In most games, it wouldn't be murder, because of the frontier justice I've talked about.&nbsp; In the real world, however, if I go over to the house of a serial killer and shoot him, I'll be tried for murder, because in my society, frontier justice is not acceptable.&nbsp;Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 2151902, member: 259"] I'm assuming that the PCs, in flying toward the sorceress, planned on getting into a fight with her--is this correct? If they'd killed her in the course of this fight, would they have committed murder? After all, it wasn't self-defense: they could've easily avoided the fight simply by not approaching her. If it wouldn't have been murder, what relevant laws or ethical considerations would've made this be the case? Does the law exempt all undead from its protection? Had the sorceress been living, would seeking her out to defeat her in battle (almost certainly killing her in the process) have constituted murder, either under the law or under a moral code? Why or why not? In most games, it wouldn't be murder, because of the frontier justice I've talked about. In the real world, however, if I go over to the house of a serial killer and shoot him, I'll be tried for murder, because in my society, frontier justice is not acceptable. Daniel [/QUOTE]

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