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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="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1564670" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Since your DM is playing the role of your patron deity in the campaign, I think he has the complete right of doing as he wishes. While another LG deity might have wanted his Paladin to do as you did, eventually this was not the case for your deity.</p><p></p><p>At best, you could argue with your DM that you were not informed enough about the deities available in the campaign when you chose to be a Paladin of this one. You can tell him that this is not the kind of Paladin you wanted to play, and maybe he'll make another god which suits your character better, of he'll let you switch to a different existing patron.</p><p></p><p>If you want to settle down a moral debate about Good vs Evil and Law vs Chaos, you are going to have a hard time. For someone, eliminating evil is a good act, while for someone else killing someone when there are other ways to deal with him is always evil; killing a man in that situation is still a crime in most of the real world's countries (and thus a not very lawful act), but on the other side it would probably be percieved my most of the people in the same world as a just punishment for the torturer (and thus a lawful act on a level higher than mortal laws)*. The whole discussion also involves the hazardous topic of motivations vs means.</p><p></p><p>*just to say that if in your opinion yours was a LG act, for someone else it could be a CE act</p><p></p><p>As I suggested earlier, you and your DM have to find a way to keep the discussion inside the fantasy world and therefore in-character, because if each of you cling to his own opinion in the real life, and pretend that the whole fantasy setting adheres to his personal morals and ethics, you are going to risk spoiling the game for someone (as it just happened to you in this case) or at worst it can even bring hostility between people involved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1564670, member: 1465"] Since your DM is playing the role of your patron deity in the campaign, I think he has the complete right of doing as he wishes. While another LG deity might have wanted his Paladin to do as you did, eventually this was not the case for your deity. At best, you could argue with your DM that you were not informed enough about the deities available in the campaign when you chose to be a Paladin of this one. You can tell him that this is not the kind of Paladin you wanted to play, and maybe he'll make another god which suits your character better, of he'll let you switch to a different existing patron. If you want to settle down a moral debate about Good vs Evil and Law vs Chaos, you are going to have a hard time. For someone, eliminating evil is a good act, while for someone else killing someone when there are other ways to deal with him is always evil; killing a man in that situation is still a crime in most of the real world's countries (and thus a not very lawful act), but on the other side it would probably be percieved my most of the people in the same world as a just punishment for the torturer (and thus a lawful act on a level higher than mortal laws)*. The whole discussion also involves the hazardous topic of motivations vs means. *just to say that if in your opinion yours was a LG act, for someone else it could be a CE act As I suggested earlier, you and your DM have to find a way to keep the discussion inside the fantasy world and therefore in-character, because if each of you cling to his own opinion in the real life, and pretend that the whole fantasy setting adheres to his personal morals and ethics, you are going to risk spoiling the game for someone (as it just happened to you in this case) or at worst it can even bring hostility between people involved. [/QUOTE]
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