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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1875848" data-attributes="member: 151">IMC, the rules for a paladin's behavior is dictated by the society that bore him, his personal code and the deity with which he is associated, if any.  One of my player is an elven paladin of Sehanine Moonbow.  He is neither chaste nor prudish.  He does not actively seek liasons simply for the thrill of them, but enjoys the company of the opposite gender when it affords itself, such as at festivals and such.  He has not, to date, fathered a child.  Elves generally regard marriage as a social union, much less than humans do.  Elves regard sexual encounters as primarily a shared pleasurable pasttime that, when consensual, is nothing more than a physical act not unlike dancing, but obviously more instense.  By the same token, in the same campaign, the human cleric of Pelor has a paladin cohort (also of Pelor, in Greyhawk's Ahlissa).  The cohort and the cleric's sister fell in love...but the paladin refused to consumate their relationship unless they were married.  In an uncharacteristic act, they married secretly, which led to some awkward moments when the cleric teleported into his sister's chambers while they were...ahem....otherwise occupied.  Further, said cleric is engaged to another paladin, but this one from the Greyhawk country of Ekbir.  Any such relations are completely out of the question until such time as they are rightfully married following all the customs of their respective peoples...which hasn''t stopped the paladin from making it clear that she can both bring home the bacon, and fry it up in a pan, so to speak.  The point being that in my games, one cannot separate the paladin's code from the culture and societies involved.   A halfling paladin of Yollanda (another NPC in game) wouldn't fret about marriage, as long as he remained committed to his partner.  Sometimes good is stronger, sometimes law...sometimes the two come into direct conflict.  C'est la vie.  And for what it's worth, I don't see the paladin as a stereotype, but an archetype.  YMMV.</blockquote>

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