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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Ipplepop" data-source="post: 3702804" data-attributes="member: 39914">Yeah, you just gotta love players that view paladins as infallible fighters with all the neat trimnmings, yet no restrictions.I was running a classic dungeon crawl that I had written for a bunch of people, including my regular group, and a 2ed group that we were teaching 3.5 to. The group had captured and restrained a blackscale lizardman that was stalking the group, and the Paladin (one of the 2ed guys) decided that since the lizardman was not giving them the answers fast enough, it deserved to have its throat cut, and immediately obliged. I usually give the players a chance to consider their actions if it is something that is so completely stupid and detrimental, and did so that night.I asked said Paladin if he really wanted to do so. My normal group was so completely dumbfounded that they couldn't speak. The 2ed group were experienced with only this guys group (he was the DM) that they didn't know any better. He made the statement that the *expletive* thing needed to die, and that he was going to kill it. NOTHING at all about it being evil. Just that it needed to die. I gave the ever popular, &quot;Weeelll, if, you're ceeertaaaain...&quot; He never wavered, so I had everyone roll initiative to give the party a chance to stop him. The paladin rolled the highest initiative, and the lizzy was ka-put.I, of course, having run Paladins most of my gaming career was so appalled that I immediately initiated Divine Retribution. The player was so severely pissed that his character lost all abilities that he grabbed his dice, his players, and stormed out the door never to be heard from again.I did, however, hear from one of his players (a friend of mine) that I had no business being a DM as I knew absolutely nothing about paladins.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Ipplepop, post: 3702804, member: 39914"] Yeah, you just gotta love players that view paladins as infallible fighters with all the neat trimnmings, yet no restrictions. I was running a classic dungeon crawl that I had written for a bunch of people, including my regular group, and a 2ed group that we were teaching 3.5 to. The group had captured and restrained a blackscale lizardman that was stalking the group, and the Paladin (one of the 2ed guys) decided that since the lizardman was not giving them the answers fast enough, it deserved to have its throat cut, and immediately obliged. I usually give the players a chance to consider their actions if it is something that is so completely stupid and detrimental, and did so that night. I asked said Paladin if he [I]really[/I] wanted to do so. My normal group was so completely dumbfounded that they couldn't speak. The 2ed group were experienced with only this guys group (he was the DM) that they didn't know any better. He made the statement that the *expletive* thing needed to die, and that he was going to kill it. NOTHING at all about it being evil. Just that it needed to die. I gave the ever popular, "Weeelll, if, you're ceeertaaaain..." He never wavered, so I had everyone roll initiative to give the party a chance to stop him. The paladin rolled the highest initiative, and the lizzy was ka-put. I, of course, having run Paladins most of my gaming career was so appalled that I immediately initiated Divine Retribution. The player was so severely pissed that his character lost all abilities that he grabbed his dice, his players, and stormed out the door never to be heard from again. I did, however, hear from one of his players (a friend of mine) that I had no business being a DM as I knew absolutely nothing about paladins. [/QUOTE]

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