Thread 96495155

Does your party show mercy to bandits if they surrender?

>>96495155 (OP)
trick question, everyone fights to the death in D&D

>>96495179
That’s how most dms play it. But technically if you read modules enemies like bandits are supposed to flee when fights go sideways.

>>96495155 (OP)
More mercy than to a random shitposter that makes this thread every three weeks.
Kill yourself, you fucking waste of oxygen

>>96495155 (OP)
depends on how much they hurt us, wheter or not we know they caused bad shit in the era or if some hypermoral pussy is in the area. But in like 80% its execution and in 20% its taking him to the autorities for hanging/ prison. Letting them just go doesnt happen

>>96495155 (OP)
My character always tries to negotiate/intimidate the enemy into surrendering before the fight (Unless it's an ambush). Sadly, she is just a smol, cute redneck elf. She does try to spare anyone not willing to continue fighting.

Take em in dead and collect the bounty

>>96495155 (OP)
https://youtu.be/X-74mCMaWdU?si=1n39ANI4yoUjldw0

>>96495854
kek

>>96495155 (OP)
my bandits give no quarter and ask for none in return

>>96495155 (OP)
Lining them up and crippling their thumbs on their favored hand. Freed from the ability to fight effective, they can go home and be subsistence farmers.

Usually we capture them, question/bully them a bit, and then turn them in to some authority, and never consider what happens to their lives after that.

>>96497689
They are most likely hanged.

>>96495155 (OP)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryCharacters/comments/1nb3zw4/lorimer_jacey_bandit_archer_by_pedro_silva/
>puckee thread

>>96497694
Maybe 3-6 of them are thrown into an arena, salt-mine, or made into galley slaves.
One day fortune turns in their favour, and by working together they escape.
Still wanted by the law, they travel as far as they can, and take whatever opportunity they can to make some money and survive another day...

>>96495155 (OP)
Depends. How many crimes have the bandits committed, and of what severity? Some bandits historically were just local laymen resorting to desperate (violent) measures to survive. As long as they've not done something genuinely unforgivable (like murder, mass beatings, or stealing food from people who need it) and they seem to genuinely regret turning to banditry and show a desire to never do so again, there's room for mercy. But this is, admittedly, pretty unlikely. Any bandit group that's been at it long enough to become competent at the job would have already racked up enough horrible crimes to have earned summary execution no matter how much they beg for forgiveness.

>>96497381
If they had the option to make a stable, safe living back at home, they probably wouldn't have chosen the risky life of a bandit in the first place. Also I believe thumbs are quite useful for farmers, too.

>>96497804
Not my problem. I am a fighting man with a sword, not a social worker.

>>96495155 (OP)
We'll see next week. The Rogue was straight up going to torch their hovel before even looting the damn thing because she was so pissed over being shot at. The two snipers weren't even really trying to kill them, just get them to fuck off, but the party bee-lined it up the street under fire to get at them; I was baffled they didn't even look for cover first.

I was a little surprised the party even took them alive but I guess having the two snipers actually chatter when the party was sneaking up on them worked. It'll be interesting to see their reaction when they figure out they might have to take care of two prisoners after they come up short for the stuff they're supposed to be scavenging.

>>96497767
counterpoint
most lords arent doing their job in the peasants point of view. if there is rampant banditry killing some bandits isnt going to solve the problem and the only people who probably both want to fight the lord and have any fighting experience, are the bandits

>>96495405
posting elf oc in literally every thread
starting to become unendeared

>>96495358
shut up faglord
iv shit turds edgier than you

>>96498170
He's one of like eight people on the board that still actually play. Sucks but that's how it is.

>>96498001
Then just use your sword to kill them instead of crippling the poor bastards and leaving them to starve.

>>96498195
Once crippled their survival depends on charity and good intentions, let them learn how hard life is for the weak and meditate on how they made life worse for everyone. That way their souls will be purified when they die.

>>96495155 (OP)
Half of them go in the pit to burn alive, the rest are crucified along the road as a warning to others.

>>96498221
Aaah the old Crassus method.

>>96498224
Just another day in Imperial Rome, citizen.

>>96498212
If you're a fighting man with a sword, not a social worker nor a priest, just do your job instead of trying to teach people moral lessons through needless cruelty.

>>96498235
So he delivers them to his local lord, who promptly executes them.

How merciful.

>>96498238
Compared to dying slowly through starvation because you're a cripple who can't work? Yes.

>>96495179
did you just assume that OP is playing dnd?

>>96495155 (OP)
Do I get more EXP for saving the fucks? Because if not, they die.

>>96495155 (OP)
Yes. Providing they swear to give up their evil ways and serve God in humility. Otherwise, death by hand-to-hand combat through each other, culminating into fighting my boys and me.

Like the Count of Monte-Christo, but more throat punches.

My party plays only WHRP and WoD. Poor shits will be lucky if they're just killed.

>>96495179
Did you just assume OP's system???

>>96498284
>exp for kills

>>96498195
No. A man with a thumb crippled on his favored had is still capable of much. Given that I have the sword in this scenario, I make the decisions. I don't recall giving you a say in the matter.

>>96498195
No. A man with a thumb crippled on his favored had is still capable of much. Given that I have the sword in this scenario, I make the decisions. I don't recall giving you a say in the matter..

>>96495155 (OP)
mercy to the guilty is injustice to the victim. my paladin wields an axe, rather than a sword, for a reason

>>96498170
I only post her in elf threads, drawthreads and these occasional "Does your character/party X" slop threads unless they're really, really bad.

>>96498580
Anon probably mainly posts in elf threads and felt the need to call you out after seeing her a bunch

>>96495155 (OP)
Depends. If they didn't kill any of our guys than we're lenient enough to offer them potential jobs as followers.
If they did though, all bets are off.

>>96498584
I would love to see other people's characters and situations talked about but I feel it's not my fault few people here play games and even fewer can produce/commision art of their PCs/party.

>>96498813
This really isn't the place for that. tg used to be flooded with anonymous artists back in the day, but the name of the game now getting credit for their work and building a persistent following. tg just doesn't make sense for that sort of thing so you see more of that on other platforms better designed for it.

>>96498836
>building an audience on imageboards
What the actual fuck. Do people actually do this!?

>>96498855
Reread. The point is they are NOT posting on imageboards. It just doesn't make sense anymore.

>>96498870
I know what your point is, but I think you missed mine.
I don't post my elf art here to create a following. I already have a portfolio and my socials decked out with proper detailed work and I'm already an employed artist. This is why I don't share my link to the portfolio and why I remove signatures from some stuff that I post here. I'm here to have a conversation and to talk about and read about games being played and since this is an IMAGEboard why wouldn't I spice things up with a cute redneck elf art?

>>96498918
I wasn't talking about your elf art...

>>96495155 (OP)
>his game doesn't have a rule for trying to do a killing blow on a helpless intelligent humanoid
LMAO
ngmi

>>96498925
Ah okay then. I can't speak for other people.

>>96495155 (OP)
They've mostly just been deserters. It's a worse fate to just round them up and send them to the front.

>>96498334
>Given that I have the sword in this scenario, I make the decisions.
It's an adventure, your most likely interlocutors will have swords.

>>96495155 (OP)
Mercy as in letting them go? rarely. While it dependent on the circumstances and I also count Guards of High Ranking enemies into that question the general M.O. is that if they surrender they are likely brought before the Law.
Why? The only reason I am not dead right now is because I was better than them/armed etc. But how many Travellers did they kill that were weaker than them? Did they listen to the crys for mercy of these people? Had I been one of them I would lie dead in the mud and they would not think of me again.

>>96495155 (OP)
Of course we do, when they surrender we have them do knife fights to the death!
The survivor gets to keep all the knives!

>>96498164
> if there is rampant banditry killing some bandits isnt going to solve the problem
Thats why you dont stop at "some"

>>96500720
>punisher
>when you're basically just being the right hand of the local lord who's doing such a shitty job governing that there are bandits everywhere

>>96495155 (OP)
We usually end up giving them a job
In most of my 5e sessions whenever a bandit group tries to rob us on the road we end up killing the leader or some of them and whoever survives passes our test that we were totally putting them through this whole time
It's kind of slavery but we pay and feed them what we can and if they run away while we're sleeping we don't really care
Though when they steal something we usually hunt them down even if it's something minor like a wine skin
One time in late game we had three of our bandit recurits go take care of the other bandits in front of us
The three tried to get them to run away or else he's gonna regret it
They didn't listen and they fought
We took in a new member of our company
The dm described how the newest bandit looked up to the other three in fear and the three looked back with a somber expression, remembering when they used to feel that kind of fear

>>96495155 (OP)
I will give them the chance to make their case. I don't expect to be convinced, but they will have the chance to change my mind.
But if they have been killing random travelers, they should expect to receive as much mercy as they have given and no more.

>>96501289
Chance at redemption?

Kinda. Well, when I was running a Pathfinder 1e game, my players were trying to establish themselves as new nobility in the city. So, they started taking some enemies prisoner, showing them off to the townsfolk, and sometimes reforming them so they became helpful NPCs

>>96495405
I could easily seduce and rail your elf OC.
Thoughts?

>>96495155 (OP)
The party I'm currently in would probably take bandits alive if they surrendered. We don't really have the facilities to take a lot of prisoners though, so they might end up being shot or released depending on the circumstances.

>>96499609
False and gay.

>>96505283
Yes, Daddy.

>>96505337
What are those circumstances?

>>96495155 (OP)
Kill yourself puckee

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryArmor/comments/1nb3yel/lorimer_jacey_bandit_archer_by_pedro_silva/

>>96495854
I love Wigglewood.

>>96506922
Me too

Bumpfag thread

>>96505283
Okay. How do you get to her?

>>96495405
she looks chill

>>96505283
Love the confidence with you say that

>>96497756
So be the life of the poor.

>>96504857
>reforming criminals into soldiers
Ahhh the middle ages.

The penalty for banditry is death. No quarter.

Puck off fuckee.

>>96495155 (OP)
Depends I guess?

I mean if it some starving robbers who clearly doing it out of desperation then maybe mercy is the best answer, just after beating the the shit out of them

But if it some guy called Madeyes Dave, notorious highwayman, rapist and child strangler, who is also a boss of a large bandit warband who are fine of flaying any poor bastard they get their hands on for shit and giggles, then put them to the sword is the best answer

>>96495155 (OP)
My PC is the bandit.

>>96529758
What the best class for a bandit themed character anyways?

Fighter, rogue and I guess ranger as well

>>96498580
never stop posting your art, its always a delight to see :)

>>96497804
The reasons are irrelevant, they chose to prey on others.

>>96497804
I'm pushing my blade into your throat as you're spouting this excuse, dude.

>>96531734
this

>>96495155 (OP)
>enemies surrender
Storyshitter levels through the roof over here.

>>96498320
It's either that or 1gp=1xp. Anything else and you can leave the table.

Show mercy once, but only so I can perform my animinality on them.

>>96495155 (OP)
Die you spamming faggot.

>>96530353
Warrior or Commoner.

>>96495155 (OP)
Ideally I want to, but my party mates are bloodthirsty.

>>96538170
not if it's plausible and realistic to happen. You do have notes for the bandit's goals and motivations, don't you?

>>96525620
At your own hands or the hands of a noose?