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Okay, now I think I get you. This must be the core point of disagreement, where we diverge. I think paladins are instruments of their god's wrath and have been completely pre-approved to kill anything that is probably evil. You, on the other hand, have a more complicated view of the...

Ack! You are right. The paladin should not have roughed-up the halfling. Like I said earlier, I believe killing the wicked halfling was the paladin's prorogative. But a paladin should never inflict pain and terror to coerce cooperation. Even mild torture is not an option. Consequently, I...

The paladin's distribution of the dead PC's items is the right thing to do because the paladin decided it was. No other PC has that kind of moral authority. Similarly, if the paladin had decided it was proper to leave the items where they fell, that would be the right thing to do. When the...

Okay, thanks. I just Googled "anger" and learned a little more. Apparently anger is frowned upon because it can easily lead to evil, amongst other downsides. That makes perfect sense. However, it seems that "righteous anger" is totally cool. (A passage in the Bible where gambling tables...

You mean because the paladin was angry when he did what he did, his actions are evil? Anger is evil? Anger? The emotion...anger? Will you elaborate on this idea. I'm like...huh? Tony M

Holy moley! Jim Hague, you've gone from trying to paint the paladin as a murderer to screaming for him to be dragged into hell, along with his tainted seed and despoiled wife. "Switch his kid out withsome sort of hellspawn"? Cripes! :eek: Haha. Good thread. :) Tony M

This is the kind of solution I like: mundane repercussions amongst the populace. Misc ideas: * Some townsfolk start to fear the paladin and avoid him * An investigation by the constable is launched into the killing * The church investigates the past several years of the paladin's life...

Cripes! I seriously doubt the Original Poster has a "Paladin Code" that insists every paladin use detect evil every time before killing somebody in the city limits. Therefore, it follows that if a paladin in his campaign witnesses an act that he--a trained paladin--deems evil, then it is...

Thanks for the information, glass! Tony M

GUY #1: Sir, your wife has been in a car crash! GUY #2: Oh, you said "has been," that's past tense. Whew. No hurry to see her then, or find out what happened, thank god. Sheesh. Haha. That would be called a Crusade, a totally different subject. And, yes, I agree: a Crusade is very...

What you call "slaughter of the halfling" I call "handling problem #1 before moving on to problem #2." The paladin is in a hurry here, remember. His wife is in danger. "That's what jails are for"? Hey, death is a jail. In a world of resurrection, death is not the huge, tragic...

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Sounds to me like the paladin's player is roleplaying love and passion for his wife. No penalty would come from me for that. It sounds like you wanted the following response: PALADIN: "Oh, my wife has been assaulted? (stifles yawn) Okay, you are in trouble. Participating in an assault is a...

Cool! All those goblins were killed because by my idea...so I get all the XPs! Hang on, let me check something... Darn, I'm still 5 XPs short of next level. Gotta find me a rat to kill... :) Tony M

Epson printer! Bleccch! I had one, and won't buy another. Most everything I print is black ink. But everytime I printed something in black with my Epson, the color ink would go down a tiny bit, too. Not as fast as the black, naturally, but it would go down. Eventually I threw away an...

A quote from an article I read at timesonline.co.uk: "...with more than 5,370 infantry soldiers buying themselves out of the army in the past three years rather than be posted back to Iraq or Afghanistan..." I read this and I thought, wow, a British soldier can buy himself out of the army...

Blame the adventure. The adventure is predictable, boring, and the players don't care about it. If it was me, I'd buy a new adventure that seems extra cool. Then I'd shake things up. For example... The next morning, all the goblins on the island are dead from some horrible disease. And the...

Harriet Miers? For such a prestigious position? No offense, but what are her qualifications? ;) Tony M

I used to intentionally design my Old Skool dungeons to thwart and confuse my mapping players. To further this, I would oblige them to map on plain white paper, and I'd give rough estimates on room sizes ("Looks 30 or 40' long). Even worse, they were obliged to always map on the same sheet of...

Hm. Maybe all three? Eventually the DM (who was great), reacted to my griping (I was also griping about how a second player never got cool stuff for his PC either). The DM solved the problem by increasing the amount of magic we found so there was more to go around, and he customized some...