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Permerton the DM had his goddess send him a vision that he was on the wrong track I think when your goddess chose to tell you something you if you are a paladin should listen. It is a tool in the DM tool kit to help players. I use it to give guidance to a player. This is along of the lines of a...

That has not been my experience as a DM I have had a paladin in every campaign I have run that allowed the class, But I tend to run heroic campaigns and I have been told that I am a good DM for a player who wants to play a paladin because I don't set out to make them fall unless they want too...

How boring at least it would be for me to play a game with no moral dilemmas. Again why is it against lawful good to kill monster babies? I would think any good alignment should have a problem with killing helpless babies especially if they are not born evil. There are so many ways for the...

Paladins can be stealthy and sneaky though they can't be treacherous and paladins do not have to show mercy to enemies if those enemies are dangerous and there is no way to turn them into legitimate authorities. Also while rare I can see am individual over coming the evil of the world to what...

That argument is an old one and I have seen it fought over even without a paladin in the party. In our game it was kobold babies and half the party wanted to kill them and half didn't. Though a DM acting like that is being a jerk. A paladin does not fall over something like that. He is...

I think it exists because people are limited in thinking lawful good can only be played in a black and white way. First of all law can have many meanings is the la the law of the land, a code, a law of a god? That is the first step deciding what law the lawful good character follows. Secondly...

I noticed that someone brought up putting the paladin in a no win situation. I read this in almost every conversation about paladins. I guess I have been lucky I have never seen this. What would be considered a no win situation and why would DMs do other then wanting to mess with the paladin...

I do all of the above. If it is something that will be more fun if the other players don't know about it yet I will take the player aside privately. Or send notes. My players usually are good at not metagaming info they don't have. If it is something that I think the other players will enjoy...

It depends on how people behave with electronic devices. Our last session I got testy with another player whose girl friend kept texting him through the entire game causing him to miss things it really bogged things down to the point that I started packing up saying I guess we were finished for...

The reason I believe that the DM should have the final say is simple they are the arbitrators, they run the world, they decide how the world views the PCs. Now I am not saying they should totally ignore the players opinions but if the players are not willing to abide by the DMs decisions then...

I most certainly hold clerics to the same standards as paladins I use the Kingdoms of Kalamar rule that clerics have to be the same alignment as their deity. And clerics can lose powers or worse have their powers supplied by an evil deity this putting the taint of evil on them. A player should...

I am sorry it was not my intent to edition war. I will admit I do get frustrated with the whole 3E/Pathfinder not being balanced so why do you care if something unbalances the game. As someone who plays and DMs this edition I will say that you have to be careful with what you houserule because...

I view the knights of King Arthur as fighters who live by a code they don't channel supernatural powers. At least if you are looking to the more historical versions as opposed to the more mythical. I would love to see a fighter knight class that emulated this as opposed to sticking on the...

I often feel old. Recently at a gamer store I heard some kids saying they never played that old style DnD they were talking about 3E. I sometimes get a shock when I realize my son is now in his thirties I still think of him as being a young adult.

In my senior year of high school one of my friends was hit by a drunk driver and left to die in a ditch. He had been a popular student a member of the marching band and student government. He was awarded his diploma with the rest of the graduates ,accepting his was his younger sister. There...

For the most part I hate long dungeon crawls. They usually become tedious and lack the ability for much role playing. That being said there was one that I totally enjoyed. The DM made a complete world underground with all kinds of races both good and evil. We were trapped and had to find a way...

Really you had to go there. Just because 3E/Pathfinder are not as finely balanced as other editions does not mean that it it is a good idea to just say anything goes. I like 3E quite a lot and you can completely unbalance the game to make it unplayable if you don't carefully consider house rules...

I am not excited exactly but I am very interested and am looking forward to getting my hands on the PHB. By this time for 4E all I was feeling was a lot of dread that it would not be the edition for me and I was right. It was a very sad time because for the first time I was no longer playing...

I guess my issues is that I have never looked at paladins as knights in shining armor ala King Arthur. I have always viewed them as special warriors called to a higher calling to defend, smite evil, uphold justice while most may serve a God that is not what comes first. I have never liked them...

You didn't list my favorite published setting and that is Kingdom of Kalamar. If I am not running a home brew that is my favorite setting to run and play in.