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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5687345" data-attributes="member: 20323">I prefer to follow the Dick Rule: If a player wants to run a paladin (cleric, Druid, etc) just for the powerz and to give the middle finger to the system, they are being a dick. You can make rules so they can't be a dick *in the same way*, but rest assured their dickediness will come out some other way.The corollary is that players who want to run paladins for the roleplay value might take controversial action that the rules aren't clear about or the rules conflict with what common sense would tell us. If the DM hits such a paladin's player with an arbitrary punishment, then DM is behaving like a dick. And chances are it isn't the first time.Best course of action is for optional sidebar of codes and penalties for breaking them under the paladin class writeup. Let each group choose. And players and DMs in such games would do well to run the Dick Rule by each other.</blockquote>