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DFRPG Resource Collection / Re: Sample Combat
« on: August 24, 2010, 05:31:11 PM »...But then they didn't die as a result of your magic. They died as a result of someone else decapitating them.
Say you use magic to make a warlock fall asleep. Then you slit his throat. Did you break the first law? What if you tie him up and wake him up before killing him? What if you tie him up, wake him up, and hand him off to the wardens for a "trial" that will inevitably end in someone else killing him? By your logic, *all* of those are Lawbreaker actions. So you're telling me that every warden who ever uses magic at any point when apprehending a warlock has a Lawbreaker power? Really?
Let's go back to the sleeping and then slitting his throat thing, in my mind that would be a violation of the first law of magic. It's well established that a wizard can't use magic to do something that they don't believe in, it does go back to intent. The spell was used so that you could then slit his throat. The spell was used to kill a man. Capturing a Warlock and turning him over to the Wardens to be tried (if you can call it a trail) is not breaking the first law of magic even if he's then executed, You're working within the laws of the White Council.