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blackstaff67:
Actually, now that you mention it... 

RexQuondamRexqueFuturus:
Yeah, that did happen in game. It was so bad it made me post after lurking for a looooong time.

I'm of two minds on the lawbreaker on that mishap.  Wizard B was of unknown living status. He was phasing in and out of reality as it happened. He could have been dying or already dead. We had just "saved" a dozen people who ended up being dead and THEN turning into outsider puppets ready to eat faces.

Wizard B also isn't dead. The strange nature of the dimension of reality we were in prevented his death in ways unknown.

As a Co-GM with Blackstaff67 and another gentleman I don't think is in this discussion I am at a loss. This isn't clear cut. The whole party was at war with a massive outsider incursion. Massive enough to call in Winter Fey en masse to repel it. Act of War, casualties happen.

Wizard A had no way to know that an innocent would be harmed. Wizard A also could have been justified because everything remotely human nearby was outsider tainted.

We had a similar situation where Wizard B killed a family by accident as collateral damage when he magically caused a car crash, not by hexing. There wasn't a lawbreaker issued there either.

Harry torched a house once.  Warden Morgan's sword didn't snicker snack through Harry's neck.

Fuzzy grey areas.

Haru:

--- Quote from: RexQuondamRexqueFuturus on October 13, 2014, 06:30:45 PM ---Fuzzy grey areas.

--- End quote ---
When you are in a fuzzy grey area, don't look for a black and white solution.

I think an interesting solution could be to not give the character a law breaker (I don't like forcing powers on a character, anyway), but make resolving the non-death of Wizard B part of the next story arc. Maybe there's a taint on Wizard A's soul for what he did, but because everything was so fuzzy, it can be washed away, if only he could find Wizard B (or what's left of him). Maybe hearing his ghost say "I forgive you" is enough to let go of the guilt.
With a premise like "prevented his death in ways unknown", there's all kinds of crazy stuff you can do.

Btw., one of my player's wizard's death was prevented by turning him into a solid marble statue that his spirit is bound to.

Fuzzy grey areas are where the story happens. ;)

Sanctaphrax:
If the victim isn't dead, the Law wasn't broken.

Regardless, I don't recommend forcing a Power on the "killer".

RexQuondamRexqueFuturus:
That's what I was leaning towards. Wizard B came back and is as alive and well as ever. A bit scarred from the debacle, but, eh. Not toast.

I did not see law breaker there. I do see Wizard B tossing a mean right hook at Wizard A though.

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