>>I don't see my character attacking sentients unless they're
>>evil.
>
>Personally I agree with exclusion to NPCs.


I've been thinking that with Lund I want to come down on the side of very strict in this regard, but I've learned something that has me scratching my head a bit. See below.


>Also, if neutral
>players are hanging around with evil players I call that
>guilty by association. Really, if you aid evil, at the
>foundation of the topic you are fighting good.


That certainly makes sense to me.


>>However, with regard to non-sentients, I would see my
>>character attacking anything, up to and including Bambi and
>>Thumper who smile sweetly. They're prey and Lund is an
>>Arial. It just makes sense to me that he would hunt any beast.
>>
>>Legimitate?
>
>Unless they are inherently good, which is why you want to use
>the consider command alot.


Yes. I discovered this text in the help doc about experience:

"You lose experience by:
- Killing good-aligned creatures if you are good-aligned"

Yikes. Not what I expected but OK - gotta adapt.

Are there many good non-sentients?

I'm scratching my head but, damn it, I really can't see Lund attacking neutral sentients who are minding their own business, or good sentients either of course, so that leaves me with evil sentients and either neutral or evil non-sentients.


>Arials are intelligent and
>conscious beings that can think beyond their instinctual
>predatory nature enough to recognize the weight of their
>actions. Of course anything else, I agree, should be fair
>game to that path of reasoning.


Point well taken.


>>Also, I would see Lund eating legs and hearts. He's an
>Arial.
>> To me this means he would eat what he kills, provided it's
>a
>>non-sentient.
>>
>>Legimitate?
>
>Thoroughly. As you adventure around Thera, you will probably
>notice alot of steak made from corpses of this and that. It's
>commonplace to eat the meat of the fallen, or Carrion, if you
>will...


I found steak in my guild hall once. Imagine my disappointment that it wasn't there regularly!!! LOL


>If I'm hungry enough, I will eat even sentient beings or their
>remains.


Is your character good?

Maybe eating the remains of evil sentients will help balance things out for me. I'm actually more concerned about food than experience points. Fast leveling isn't really a huge priority of mine. I mostly want to explore widely and avoid dying from starvation.

And then there's water - and a certain spell I didn't notice I had, and am now kicking myself for not practicing yet... LOL