Posted by: Lord Kain
« on: September 03, 2005, 02:42:11 PM »The point of the sick tadpoles to the healthy ones is to weaken the fishy prince.
The young Kuo-Toans may not be a direct threat to anyone, and they may not yet be evil, but they sure as hell will be....Hey now, that sounds like you're condemning someone based on race alone. Didn't we do this already with Viconia's execution?
Why is being an inherently unfriendly adult drow a reason for getting slaughtered, when being an inherently unfriendly big fish with a crossbow isn't?No, you can get away with killing hostile drow and hostile big fish alike. Poisoning (killing in a slow and sadistic way-- I believe the tadpoles are "corrupted" rather than exterminated) their young, which pose no direct threat to anyone, is, I believe, a different matter.
Also, you're not exterminating an entire race. You're destroying a single colony, which happens to be close to both a Svirfneblin settlement and the surface, and thus able to pose a threat to lots of generally Good people.I don't recall. Do the Svirfneblin mention them as a threat, or are they just concerned with the drow?
Why is being an inherently unfriendly adult drow a reason for getting slaughtered, when being an inherently unfriendly big fish with a crossbow isn't?Well, you can either kill the Egg Guards before opening the door, or open the door before killing the Egg Guards. If you take the first path, you only have to kill 2 Drow. If you take the second path, you have to kill every single Drow that sees you on your way out of the city. Now, you can't exactly know this all beforehand, but it's pretty obvious that if the Guards see you just waltz into the top-security vault they're guarding, they'll raise the alarm.
Also, you're not exterminating an entire race. You're destroying a single colony, which happens to be close to both a Svirfneblin settlement and the surface, and thus able to pose a threat to lots of generally Good people.