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<blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 5669774" data-attributes="member: 10784"><p>I would say yes, the paladin would attempt to not kill a parent in front of the children, if possible.</p><p></p><p>In terms of using family:</p><p></p><p>In my last campaign, the BBEG from the first leg of the campaign was a married man who was a cleric in a religion dedicated to slavery & tyranny. One of the PCs in the group had a background that he was an escaped slave from the evil theocracy where this cleric was from. However, as a 'secret' part of his background, he was also sent into this theocracy as a spy and worked in the household of a noble there... who, of course, turned out to be this BBEG. (the PC was a cooking slave in their home, and this guy maxed out his cooking skills in game...)</p><p></p><p>The BBEG was sort of a young prodigy in the church - a rising star who was rapidly climbing the church's strict hierarchy. His wife was an ambitious young woman who had some minor arcane casting ability and was known throughout the theocracy as maybe the second most beautiful woman in the nation. She latched onto his rising star, while he thought her beauty made her the perfect compliment to his future as a possible head of the church.</p><p></p><p>After the players defeated the cleric in an epic encounter (2 PCs died and one was rescued a round away from death, not to mention an NPC ally getting flattened...), the BBEG's wife's (Selwyn) fortunes took a turn for the worse, since her now dead husband had both died and failed the church. So, she lost her status in the church overnight.</p><p></p><p>After this battle, the PCs were revealed to be heroes out of prophecy who were destined to oppose the evil god of tyranny & slavery. Selwyn then took to studying magic more seriously after this, in an attempt to get revenge on the PCs, and especially, her former cooking slave. If she could defeat the heroes of prophecy, Selwyn could restore her status in the church.</p><p></p><p>So, she gathered together a band of evil companions - including some that had been defeated/run off the PCs as well - and ambushed them several levels later. She was invisible and cast "Trap the Soul" on her former cooking slave to start the combat... but, unfortunately for her, the PC made his saving throw (barely) and a big combat ensued in which Selwyn and her companions were all killed.</p><p></p><p>Thus the house of Erdim ended with Selwyn's death only a few months after her husband's Torvin Erdim died.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NewJeffCT, post: 5669774, member: 10784"] I would say yes, the paladin would attempt to not kill a parent in front of the children, if possible. In terms of using family: In my last campaign, the BBEG from the first leg of the campaign was a married man who was a cleric in a religion dedicated to slavery & tyranny. One of the PCs in the group had a background that he was an escaped slave from the evil theocracy where this cleric was from. However, as a 'secret' part of his background, he was also sent into this theocracy as a spy and worked in the household of a noble there... who, of course, turned out to be this BBEG. (the PC was a cooking slave in their home, and this guy maxed out his cooking skills in game...) The BBEG was sort of a young prodigy in the church - a rising star who was rapidly climbing the church's strict hierarchy. His wife was an ambitious young woman who had some minor arcane casting ability and was known throughout the theocracy as maybe the second most beautiful woman in the nation. She latched onto his rising star, while he thought her beauty made her the perfect compliment to his future as a possible head of the church. After the players defeated the cleric in an epic encounter (2 PCs died and one was rescued a round away from death, not to mention an NPC ally getting flattened...), the BBEG's wife's (Selwyn) fortunes took a turn for the worse, since her now dead husband had both died and failed the church. So, she lost her status in the church overnight. After this battle, the PCs were revealed to be heroes out of prophecy who were destined to oppose the evil god of tyranny & slavery. Selwyn then took to studying magic more seriously after this, in an attempt to get revenge on the PCs, and especially, her former cooking slave. If she could defeat the heroes of prophecy, Selwyn could restore her status in the church. So, she gathered together a band of evil companions - including some that had been defeated/run off the PCs as well - and ambushed them several levels later. She was invisible and cast "Trap the Soul" on her former cooking slave to start the combat... but, unfortunately for her, the PC made his saving throw (barely) and a big combat ensued in which Selwyn and her companions were all killed. Thus the house of Erdim ended with Selwyn's death only a few months after her husband's Torvin Erdim died. [/QUOTE]
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