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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amal Shukup" data-source="post: 1462934" data-attributes="member: 6291">My players have NEVER killed an 'innocent' NPC. One of the PCs has occasionally killed captured enemies - but as he's a CN Barbarian with no respect for or ties to civilized justice institutions, I saw his actions as fairly in character. They were also very, very bad people (slave trading gang members)... I do know that I would not tolerate it if my party got their jollies whackin' innocent bystanders. Mechanism of reprisal is fairly straightforward: Everybody is connected to somebody: * a harmless merchant slain for fun and profit might pay regular protection money to a Thieves Guild - which might take exception to their pigeon getting dead instead of plucked. Bad for business... * Slaughtered city guardsmen may have posed no challenge. BUT they worked for the City Council (which has wealth and resources) and the city is chartered from the local Count/Duke/Prince... * The murdered bystander is the son of old Biff the chandler, who is dearly loved by his weird uncle Harold - the elderly but very powerful 18th level Wizard... * Or, as a certain group of bad guys in my campaign found out: the easily captured and enslaved 1st level Commoner barmaid worked for a bar owned by an adventuring party with the ability and will to track down and destroy everyone involved... A'Mal</blockquote>