Quatar wrote:
Honestly that reminds me a lot of something that happened in a game I was playing a while ago. Just that was maybe a little bit more extreme even:
I was a NG druid, we were playing in a homebrew world, loosely based on ancient Greece, but with PF races etc.
There was a war between dwarves and the rest of the world basically and we've infiltrated a dwarfen city. Humans and other non-dwarves were 2nd class citizens there.
At some point there was a gathering of a couple thousand or so civilians mostly, a few military guys too. They were there watching the trial and public execution of resistance people. (We were part of the resistance) Many in that crowd were humans and non-dwarves that had probably been coerced into attending.
Now our party wizard goes invisible, flies up, uses some spell combined with a Hero Point and basically makes a giant rock that was suspended over the city fall down. (in my opinion that spell wasn't powerful enough for that even with the hero point, but GM allowed it) Right into that gathering, killing pretty much everyone, and flattening entire city blocks with the blast wave, killing even more people that weren't even at that gathering.
His justification was "Hey, I'm 13 years old (the character, not the player) and just found out that the dwarves had massacred my hometown and sacrificed everyone to an evil god. So I'm taking revenge on a dwarven city."
We took a break pretty much at this point, but I said "Seriously, I don't know how I can justify my character sticking around after this, if there's no consequences at all". I mean believing in the Circle of Life etc is one thing, but this is something different.
The bad thing was, there was none. At all. IC noone outside the party knew it was him that did this, and apparently there was no way to figure it out too.
All the other players and the GM too figured it was ok what he did because "hey, it's war. that was totally normal back then to kill civilians if it was war".
And everyone in the party was ok with it too, while...
Yeah I did take that gamble. I simply just have a strange monk. He's a zen archer but is a bit of a risk taker. He's more plain neutral than anything but didn't expect an aoe spell to fire off. It doesn't generally happen with him. Immediately after he just kind of sat down and waited for whatever consequence. He got fined 4500 gold.
