It depends on the situation. If the babies are in immediate danger, then I take them to safety if I can. If they are not in danger and there are guardians nearby, I leave them alone.
Even if there are no guardians nearby, I still leave them, because what is there to do? There are no goblin orphanages, and most orphanages will not take in goblins. And I will not dedicate the next few years of my life to raising goblins, so all I can do is hope they can fend for themselves.
Although a fine, well-fed dwarven upbringing would set the little imps straight.
wait so if there are "guardians" near by....arent those the things youve been amusingly killing?
IF you havent been, how did you wander up on the babies unmolested? Your armed and armored and there is nothing between the babies and you?
What fi you KILL ALL the adult goblins....you would leave the babies there to what? starve?
If they arent capable of harming or posing a threat to the party, they are also not capable of surviving on their own.
Is it a "good" thing to do, staying in your alignment to not murder the innocent, but at the same time let them perish cruelly with no food or water because you exterminated their care givers?Just because humans and/or elves wont take care of baby goblins doesnt mean there isnt anything that would...
there ARE other creatures and even humanoids in the world...heck in in the neighborhood.
And given the commonality of goblins...how hard would it be to find MORE of the suckers?Pack these things up... load them in a wagon and in a days ride youve found more goblins.... give them a few hundred gold and the baby goblins and make a deal with them...you dont kill my kind and I wont come hunt you down you filthy curr... now take these things that are biting my ankles and be gone!
In a few years youll be slaying these now adult goblins anyway....right?
If I'm killing a clan of goblins, it's for a reason. I may have been hired, for example, to dispatch a threat terrorizing a local village.
It is very well cruel to slay their caretakers. It is also cruel for their caretakers to slay the villagers. Such is the way of war, and war is cruel.