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So, he's in the stocks and had his tongue cut out; how long is he going to stay there? When his sentence is up, is he just going to get released?
Why would stabbing his eyes punish him AND the town?
It sounds like there's a lot of information there that's currently unknown, and mutilating him further may be more about personal vengeance than stopping him from killing even more people.
Plus, even if he didn't personally kill all those people, was he in a position of command? Capturing other bandits or assassins who work with him will prevent him from breaking out or re-offending, and showing them that their evil plans have been thoroughly thwarted.
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this man may or may not have murdered up to fifty of my clansmen. and even if he has not killed them I still wish to punish this man for banditry, murder, raiding other villages, and he is a known assassin. he is in the stalks right now. and he basicly already has his tongue cut out. I want to punish him and the town by making him deaf and blind. would that be going too far? do you need more information?
he is a really bad guy. that the sheriff is protecting. so I can't just kill him outright.
Unless you've a good reason not to, just wait until you have an opportunity and cut his throat. Be done with it.
Is there anyone in/near town above the Sheriff's head you could go to?
whats your alignment?
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mutilation of prisoners is something I would put firmly in the "evil" part of the alignment, no matter the prisoner's crime.
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You've already cut out his tongue (which is pretty f+$~ed up) so I guess you might as well commit to mutilating them. But why stop there, why not also force feed them their own toes and fingers.
I truly hope you're playing in an evil campaign, because otherwise it's a super f$&*ed up situation. :-)
I mean, I'm wondering why the sheriff is protecting him. Is it because he wants to go through due process for his conviction? What exactly do you want to accomplish here? Exactly what does the sheriff want to accomplish? I get a sense that we need a little more information...
When you say the town wants to keep him, is that a general consensus of the citizenry, or just the desire of the local government?
If it's just the leaders, take away what they covet the most...power. A little revolt can be a good thing.
Meh the dude has killed 50 of his kinsmen, good men have killed for less than that.
this man may or may not have murdered up to fifty of my clansmen. and even if he has not killed them I still wish to punish this man for banditry, murder, raiding other villages, and he is a known assassin. he is in the stalks right now. and he basicly already has his tongue cut out. I want to punish him and the town by making him deaf and blind. would that be going too far? do you need more information?
he is a really bad guy. that the sheriff is protecting. so I can't just kill him outright.
1. "May or may not"?!? - kind of big unknown. As in HUGE distinction
2. YOU want to punish him. Ok, your write-up sounds like simple vengeance and no legal authority backing it. Or perhaps THAT is why town wants to "keep" him? Are you taking issue with the fact that the Sheriff wants to adhere to the town's laws?
3. And how, exactly did this guy lose his tongue?
4. Make the guy deaf & blind. Is this your character's idea of justice or is this representative of the legal code in the town?
I'm not doubting that this guy is a serial killer. However, if he's languishing in the stocks and has had his tongue cut out I don't get the impression he's walking around as a free man.
I strongly suspect that your character's alignment should probably read Chaotic Evil on the character sheet.
Meh the dude has killed 50 of his kinsmen, good men have killed for less than that.I mean, it's only a may or may not have... But MEH amirite?
Define "good men" that kill people shackled and mutilated and helpless for crimes yet proven?
Why are you bringing out the caps lock?
Anyway I missed the may or may not bit. In that case probs not killing him is best.
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Meh the dude has killed 50 of his kinsmen, good men have killed for less than that.I mean, it's only a may or may not have... But MEH amirite?
Define "good men" that kill people shackled and mutilated and helpless for crimes yet proven?
Why are you bringing out the caps lock?
Anyway I missed the may or may not bit. In that case probs not killing him is best.
Because caps lock is a powerful tool denoting sarcasm without me having to use /sarcasm or have tone lost over the written word.
And it worked because you reread and realized it's not the best course of action. Which was TOTALLY my plan.
Oh. Wait. Sorry. No caps needed. That really was totally my plan. We all won!
I find it denotes aggression.
I make angry MEH's in the regular. It's how I maintain my image as a perpetually disgruntled b@%~@.
SEE! SEE!
this might be a runner-up in the making.
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One of my players basically did this. They'd captured a necromancer, and he felt that tying up the necromancer was insufficient, so he cut all the necromancer's fingers off. I told him that action moved him a big closer to Chaotic Neutral (from Chaotic Good), and he took offense and repeatedly sought out arguments with me, despite me clarifying that, y'know, my game, my interpretations of moral principles.
The weirdest part was where he conceded that he believed there was only a roughly 1% chance of the necromancer still being a threat, but said, "I don't gamble with other people's lives!"
A bit too utilitarian for my moral liking. In my games, being Good requires that you accept some hardship and risk in exchange for doing the right thing. And mutilating prisoners when you have alternatives is very much a Neutral choice at best. It should be noted that this particular necromancer was more a super-creepy graverobber than a genocidal a+*&@!%.
Anyways, there are some arguments for mutilating a prisoner. Most of them gravitate around "he was an archmage". Otherwise, there are generally far more humane measures of punishment. If you don't care enough about the punishment to put in the work to get the guilty party to a town where they can be imprisoned properly, their crime clearly wasn't that bad.
The fact that he had his tongue removed sounds suspicious at best.
Might he be innocent and being blamed for it? Is there something that they are keeping him from telling?
All this thing looks suspicious at best.
Are you pretty sure that your knowledge about what is happening in the town is how you have been told it is? All this geas thing from a witch seems awkward again. Could you have been tricked?
This whole situation is just really really weird
Yea, I not sure, I entirely sure what going on here.
So let me ask:
Is the big bad dead?
did the sherif work for the big bad?
are the villieges/sherif keeping the assassin alive because of monsters attacking the villige?
am I correct in understanding that it is certain that the assassin is a mass-murderer, but you just not sure is your people he's murdered?
what are the villieges thought about this? do they fear for their lives with this guy around?
didn't the sherif threaten to hang you if any happened to the assassin? that make him rather suspect?
From what I can tell the assassin is the only lyrics means this village will have to not be destroyed when the pcs are away. Is that right?
If the NPCs were able to handle everything by themselves, there'd be no game to play. It's a conceit in all RPGs.
Would have been pretty boring if Gandalf had just hopped an eagle and popped over to Mordor to drop off the Ring.
Anyone who has ever played in the Forgotten Realms setting knows that there are many, many massively powered NPCs about. But for some reason, Elminster always needs your level 1 wizard to handle things for him.
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If the NPCs were able to handle everything by themselves, there'd be no game to play. It's a conceit in all RPGs.
Would have been pretty boring if Gandalf had just hopped an eagle and popped over to Mordor to drop off the Ring.
Anyone who has ever played in the Forgotten Realms setting knows that there are many, many massively powered NPCs about. But for some reason, Elminster always needs your level 1 wizard to handle things for him.
OFF TOPIC: presumably Gandalf would've done just that if he didn't know himself well enough to grasp that the Ring would've gotten too great a grip on him if he'd tried.
OFF TOPIC: presumably Gandalf would've done just that if he didn't know himself well enough to grasp that the Ring would've gotten too great a grip on him if he'd tried.
I don't think Sauron had anything to do with the three, Galadriel had one of them too, they were just both wise enough to know that the power that the ring could give them wasn't a power someone should have.