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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VoiceOfReason?" data-source="post: 2118062" data-attributes="member: 27145">In a game I played in, my party encountered a similar quandry about goblins.  Rob, playing the Paladin, came upon the eppiffany halfway through the goblin warrens our group had been sent to exterminate (the first room containing females and young).  He spent the latter half of several battles doing nothing but praying for divine intervention, because he wouldn't raise a hand to the unarmed women and children regardless of species, couldn't leave his comerade's side, and couldn't do a number of other things because his code of conduct would have denied the actions as he saw them.  The LG cleric had no qualms slaughtering the evil humanoids' genepool in the name of Torm (or some similar god of blanket hatred toward the non-civilized).  Our Samurai opted to sheathe his sword and fight unarmed against the goblinettes and goblings.  Basically the conclusion I'm getting at is that "Good" and "Evil" (and Law/Chaos) have to be defined by each character you make as an individual.  The fact that this post is going on so long indicates that people's views of good and evil are different, so should their D&D characters' views, as they are meant to emulate real-ish, believable individuals.</blockquote>