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My Paladin killed a child molester (and now my DM wants to take away my powers!)
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<blockquote data-quote="argo" data-source="post: 1564656" data-attributes="member: 5752"><p>Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it was a base act of vengance and anger and maybe it was an act of rightetous holy justice. I obviously think that there is some room to manouver here. However lets say that there were better, more paladinesque choices. Should a paladin really loose his paladinhood just because he didn't make the <strong>best</strong> decision for a given situation? Or only if his actions are <em>un</em>paladinesque? I really do not see how you can argue that a paladin who finds a man in the act of raping a 10 year old girl and strikes him down on the spot and without hesitation is behaving in a truly unpaladinesque manner. At worst this should be a checkmark in his cosmic tally sheet under "right motives, wrong methods". If he continues with a pattern of vigilanteism and poor choices then he might start to get warnings from his diety followed by temporary loss of powers and finally a loss of paladinhood. But it would just be folish for his god to hand a valued employee his pink slip on the spot for such a minor offense and espically when his heart was in the right place. If you are going to argue that the road to hell is paved with good intentions then I am going to counter that it is still a road that must be walked and not a binary choice.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The real rat bastard thing for the DM to do would not be to strip the paladin of his paladinhood but to have the villian's Lawfull Neutral and politically well-conected older brother show up and absouetly refuse to believe that his beloved sibbling could be guilty of such a thing and then procede to make the PC's life miserable in perfectly lawful and morally acceptable ways. Then remind the player that if there had been a public trial this never would have happened. Now that would be mean. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious :]" data-shortname=":]" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="argo, post: 1564656, member: 5752"] Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it was a base act of vengance and anger and maybe it was an act of rightetous holy justice. I obviously think that there is some room to manouver here. However lets say that there were better, more paladinesque choices. Should a paladin really loose his paladinhood just because he didn't make the [b]best[/b] decision for a given situation? Or only if his actions are [i]un[/i]paladinesque? I really do not see how you can argue that a paladin who finds a man in the act of raping a 10 year old girl and strikes him down on the spot and without hesitation is behaving in a truly unpaladinesque manner. At worst this should be a checkmark in his cosmic tally sheet under "right motives, wrong methods". If he continues with a pattern of vigilanteism and poor choices then he might start to get warnings from his diety followed by temporary loss of powers and finally a loss of paladinhood. But it would just be folish for his god to hand a valued employee his pink slip on the spot for such a minor offense and espically when his heart was in the right place. If you are going to argue that the road to hell is paved with good intentions then I am going to counter that it is still a road that must be walked and not a binary choice. The real rat bastard thing for the DM to do would not be to strip the paladin of his paladinhood but to have the villian's Lawfull Neutral and politically well-conected older brother show up and absouetly refuse to believe that his beloved sibbling could be guilty of such a thing and then procede to make the PC's life miserable in perfectly lawful and morally acceptable ways. Then remind the player that if there had been a public trial this never would have happened. Now that would be mean. :] [/QUOTE]
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