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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 575365" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, there's one simple way - note that even under the law, one does not necessarily need to immediately act upon what one knows.  Similarly note that under teh law, there is usually more than one action one can take.The noble knight discovers that one of his peers has made a pact with an infernal power.  The noble knight may call him out onto the field for a trial by combat that instant.  The law allows and even condones it.  But it probably doesn't say he must do that and only that, or that it must be done the instant the noble knight learns the news....Lawful does not mean "without thought or discretion".  That's the big mistake I tend to see - that lawful characters have no actual choices - if the law is broken they feel they don't have any alternatives in dealing with it.</blockquote>