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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 2899462" data-attributes="member: 39394">A LG paladin is not at ease slaughtering foes en mass for being &quot;evil&quot;.There's really two ways to play the evil alignment.&nbsp; One way is that it's a philosophical position and it's possible to be &quot;evil&quot; without having done anything actually illegal or beyond the boundries of civilized society.&nbsp; That is, an evil bartender might water down the drinks and screw people out of thier money whenever he gets the chance without descending to the 'slaughter travelers in their sleep' level.&nbsp; In this case, obviously a paladin is going to have to go by a 'deeds, not alignment aura' philosophy and hope to redeem those &quot;evil&quot; people by example.The other way to play it is to assume that one doesn't get to be evil without showing a serious and significant disregard for intelligent life, and having done brutal deeds that would sicken most normal human beings.&nbsp; In this case, evil is EVIL and one might make a case for a paladin being an instrument of divine justice and hacking those poeple apart.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfwood2, post: 2899462, member: 39394"] A LG paladin is not at ease slaughtering foes en mass for being "evil". There's really two ways to play the evil alignment. One way is that it's a philosophical position and it's possible to be "evil" without having done anything actually illegal or beyond the boundries of civilized society. That is, an evil bartender might water down the drinks and screw people out of thier money whenever he gets the chance without descending to the 'slaughter travelers in their sleep' level. In this case, obviously a paladin is going to have to go by a 'deeds, not alignment aura' philosophy and hope to redeem those "evil" people by example. The other way to play it is to assume that one doesn't get to be evil without showing a serious and significant disregard for intelligent life, and having done brutal deeds that would sicken most normal human beings. In this case, evil is EVIL and one might make a case for a paladin being an instrument of divine justice and hacking those poeple apart. [/QUOTE]

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