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Would you allow this paladin in your game? (new fiction added 11/11/08)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1955904" data-attributes="member: 3887"><p>What I was getting at is paladins are supposed to be balanced without regard to their code of conduct. The don't get 'perks' for following behavioral restrcitions any more than a fighter does.</p><p></p><p>There really isn't any <strong>should</strong> here... any process that gets you to an interesting character is the right one. </p><p>IMHO, he has to be a paladin, in the same way a "bad cop" PC for modern game would have to be a police officer. </p><p></p><p>If you decide Cedric is an interesting character, then you have to allow his central conceit; the fact he's a fully-charged, non-fallen paladin. If not its a totally different character.</p><p></p><p>You can't explore a conflict over what it means to be a paladin (Cedric core story) without making him a paladin. In same way you can't explore being a crippled Vietnam vet if your protagonist is one of the Teletubbies. OK, maybe you could, but it would be inane...</p><p></p><p>Cedric isn't the equivalent of a mage who's too thick to learn a spell. Implying that what shilsen outlined is somehow haphazard is a bit intellectually dishonest (and I wish I knew what "intellectually dissonant", I must involve sound ...). Cedric (arguably) deviates from baseline paladin in <em>one</em> area; and shilsen provided a damn good rationale for it from the characters point of view. If you can explain a character in a way that makes good (dramatic) sense to me, then the rules, whatever they say, are at best a secondary concern.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 1955904, member: 3887"] What I was getting at is paladins are supposed to be balanced without regard to their code of conduct. The don't get 'perks' for following behavioral restrcitions any more than a fighter does. There really isn't any [b]should[/b] here... any process that gets you to an interesting character is the right one. IMHO, he has to be a paladin, in the same way a "bad cop" PC for modern game would have to be a police officer. If you decide Cedric is an interesting character, then you have to allow his central conceit; the fact he's a fully-charged, non-fallen paladin. If not its a totally different character. You can't explore a conflict over what it means to be a paladin (Cedric core story) without making him a paladin. In same way you can't explore being a crippled Vietnam vet if your protagonist is one of the Teletubbies. OK, maybe you could, but it would be inane... Cedric isn't the equivalent of a mage who's too thick to learn a spell. Implying that what shilsen outlined is somehow haphazard is a bit intellectually dishonest (and I wish I knew what "intellectually dissonant", I must involve sound ...). Cedric (arguably) deviates from baseline paladin in [i]one[/i] area; and shilsen provided a damn good rationale for it from the characters point of view. If you can explain a character in a way that makes good (dramatic) sense to me, then the rules, whatever they say, are at best a secondary concern. [/QUOTE]
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