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<blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3326819" data-attributes="member: 48586">These quandaries are what make paladins fun to have around. I ran a campaign once in which a cleric couldn't bring himself to kill a baby mountain troll. He brought him back and raised him to young adulthood with heavy indoctrination in the church. He became a kind of secret weapon for the church named Brother Clubber. Kind of a Quasimoto character (Hunchback of Notre Dame). The role-playing aspect and campaign development this provides shouldn't be ignored by your DM. It ain't easy being a paragon of good. A paladin is usually expected to make the choice which is the most difficult. Ask yourself which is easier... killing the troll babies and moving on? Or taking them under your wing and raising them to be good virtuous creatures to follow in the ways of your principles? Perhaps cohorts in later years.If your campaign is one that allows for mercy and kindness, then go that route. If it's a campaign that doesn't allow for these things - perhaps there is a state of war or the DM has deemed that trolls are not &quot;usually&quot; evil, but &quot;always&quot; evil instead - then killing them would be the proper thing to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="+5 Keyboard!, post: 3326819, member: 48586"] These quandaries are what make paladins fun to have around. I ran a campaign once in which a cleric couldn't bring himself to kill a baby mountain troll. He brought him back and raised him to young adulthood with heavy indoctrination in the church. He became a kind of secret weapon for the church named Brother Clubber. Kind of a Quasimoto character (Hunchback of Notre Dame). The role-playing aspect and campaign development this provides shouldn't be ignored by your DM. It ain't easy being a paragon of good. A paladin is usually expected to make the choice which is the most difficult. Ask yourself which is easier... killing the troll babies and moving on? Or taking them under your wing and raising them to be good virtuous creatures to follow in the ways of your principles? Perhaps cohorts in later years. If your campaign is one that allows for mercy and kindness, then go that route. If it's a campaign that doesn't allow for these things - perhaps there is a state of war or the DM has deemed that trolls are not "usually" evil, but "always" evil instead - then killing them would be the proper thing to do. [/QUOTE]

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