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SYSTEM REFERENCE DOCUMENT 3.5 |
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Law Enforcement: The other key distinctions between adventuring in a city and delving into a dungeon is that a dungeon is, almost by
definition, a lawless place where the only law is that of the jungle: Kill or be killed. A city, on the other hand, is held together by a code of
laws, many of which are explicitly designed to prevent the sort of behavior that adventurers engage in all the time: killing and looting. Even so,
most cities’ laws recognize monsters as a threat to the stability the city relies on, and prohibitions about murder rarely apply to monsters
such as aberrations or evil outsiders. Most evil humanoids, however, are typically protected by the same laws that protect all the citizens of the
city. Having an evil alignment is not a crime (except in some severely theocratic cities, perhaps, with the magical power to back up the law); only
evil deeds are against the law. Even when adventurers encounter an evildoer in the act of perpetrating some heinous evil upon the populace of the
city, the law tends to frown on the sort of vigilante justice that leaves the evildoer dead or otherwise unable to testify at a trial.
