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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7497677" data-attributes="member: 6799649">Most of this post has already been addressed, but this part needs my personal response:-Part of what I was going for was to avoid falling! I absolutely did not want to become an Oathbreaker paladin! I was going to become a Vengeance paladin, already set up in many ways including specific revenge on the pirate captain who murdered my own PC's captain.I wanted to experience the frisson of playing a PC who is highly motivated to appear to be evil, ruthless, and terrifying, while actually remaining good, and achieving that by being terrifying!How can you terrify people like other pirate captains while avoiding becoming evil yourself? That is what I was going for with this PC.I'd even worked out some tricks. The old darkness?Devil's Sight combo, "I'll make you remember why you fear the dark!", and the old Batman gambit of the baddies actually killing each other in the darkness while I went and rescued someone using Mask of Many Faces so I didn't appear heroic.I took great pains to let people assume I was the undead revenant of my murdered captain. Every time I opened my visor (think Judge Fear if you're familiar with Judge Dredd) I used MoMF to show a different face. When I wanted to intimidate a captive I would open my visor to reveal a face like Spawn with his mask off. I could use illusions to make my hand appear to reach into their chest and pull out their still beating heart, while in reality my hand is just resting on their chest and the chill from armour of Agathys helps the con. All that should be worth advantage on that Intimidation check!What are the evil pirates going to do? Call some paladins to help them? And if they did, cool! Another great role-playing challenge!I thought it would be great fun to play! It was. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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