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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2165635" data-attributes="member: 15651">A little late to the game, I just looked at this thread today.  I just scanned parts of it, didn't read every post.  As for what I would have done, I would have kept it all in game.  Due to some mistakes in the past around issues such as this, I adjusted my thoughts on how people should play their characters.  I would probably let the entire issue go - for the time being.  It is not up to me as DM to dictate how a player should have their PC act.  I no longer ask for character alignments at all.  My expectation is that people develop their character to be played a certain way most of the time.  The situation in the original posting admitted that the PCs were tired, hurt and angry.  So, maybe they were not acting in the way they do most of the time.    Now, if I felt that the players were always changing their PCs personalities to be expedient, I might have a talk with them, and more likely I would start to have in-game consequences.  The young kid they turned loose, against all odds, survived the woods and found refuge.  He tells people he encounters what these viscious people did to him and his companions.  Stories begin to spread, the party finds their reputation changing, less reputable people begin to look them up for shady jobs, people look upon them with suspicion etc.Like I said I learned this from experience and still reget trying to force people to fit their characters to a mold of my making.  When I as DM start dictating how the PCs should act, it is time for me to stop DMing and start writing fiction instead.</blockquote>

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