• Omnificer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yea, blatant murder and assault isn’t justifiable to most good deities or codes of ethics, even if the target pings as evil. “Oh this shopkeeper is evil? Guess he dies.”

    At the least, it’s highly illegal most places, so even if there aren’t divine consequences there’d certainly be social ones.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, even when alignment is proof enough you still need trials, and a random person’s magic sword isn’t exactly reliable proof in itself.

      Can it fail? Can it be tricked? Is it a magical effect, or a divine one?

      What about people who have done horrible crimes but served their sentence?

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        1 year ago

        You can’t expect to wield supreme judicial power just cause you threw a sword at some watery tart.

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        1 year ago

        Supreme judicial power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical abuse of a magic item. I mean, if I went around stabbing people just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!