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<blockquote data-quote="PsykoLad" data-source="post: 1173865" data-attributes="member: 4315">First, regarding executions - Whether or not this is proper at all really depends on the laws of your campaign world.&nbsp; In my world, a paladin acts as an arm of the local authority figure, at the very bottom rank.&nbsp; (any knight does actually, paladins are knights by default in my world)&nbsp; So they are empowered to deliver &quot;field justice&quot; (this includes all types of things not just executions) on the understanding that they will have to report to the local authority figure and provide an explanation as to why they could not deliver the criminal to the authorities, and prove that justice was delivered appropriately. If the party had not agreed to deliver the outpost to the archmage they could possibly have gotten away with this, assuming that being a cleric of Lolth is an executable offense.&nbsp; But since they have agreed, they have accepted the archmage as the legitimate authority of the outpost, and the paladin must respect that authority in order to hold up his code.&nbsp; If that rule does not exist in your campaign than any execution would be murder, and would also violate the &quot;respect legitimate authority&quot; portion of the paladin's code.Second, the duel - This rests on the assumption that she will fight.&nbsp; What does the party do if she doesn't?&nbsp; She's not stupid.. having seen the moral problems the group has already had, what if she just waits until she is healed and armed and walks off?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PsykoLad, post: 1173865, member: 4315"] First, regarding executions - Whether or not this is proper at all really depends on the laws of your campaign world. In my world, a paladin acts as an arm of the local authority figure, at the very bottom rank. (any knight does actually, paladins are knights by default in my world) So they are empowered to deliver "field justice" (this includes all types of things not just executions) on the understanding that they will have to report to the local authority figure and provide an explanation as to why they could not deliver the criminal to the authorities, and prove that justice was delivered appropriately. If the party had not agreed to deliver the outpost to the archmage they could possibly have gotten away with this, assuming that being a cleric of Lolth is an executable offense. But since they have agreed, they have accepted the archmage as the legitimate authority of the outpost, and the paladin must respect that authority in order to hold up his code. If that rule does not exist in your campaign than any execution would be murder, and would also violate the "respect legitimate authority" portion of the paladin's code. Second, the duel - This rests on the assumption that she will fight. What does the party do if she doesn't? She's not stupid.. having seen the moral problems the group has already had, what if she just waits until she is healed and armed and walks off? [/QUOTE]

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