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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1882034" data-attributes="member: 2013">I'll note that the following example is applicable only to male paladins; obviously, female paladins know darn well when their sexual habits have led to the appearance of kin on the scene. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />One assumes, absent herbal/magical contraceptives, that at some point a habit of "wanton mad sex" is going to lead to conception of a child.  That child is kin to the paladin.  Unless the paladin makes it a point to keep track of those that might bear his children to make sure he DOES take care of any children he might sire, that's neglecting duty to kin.Depending on how you play this, you could see a paladin lose his abilities for not keeping in touch with the object of his coupling at all (because even if a child has not yet been sired, he is neglecting a duty to check)... or it could be that in your campaign paladins use "loss of paladinly abilities" to determine whether or not the person they just knocked up and left is pregnant with their child... even better than a paternity/pregnancy test!On the other hand, such situations - either way - might lead to some marvelously delicious role-playing situations.On the OTHER other hand, it just occurred to me that since paladins are immune to disease, one supposes that they would have fewer "non-pregnancy" worries about high rates of sexual activity and number of partners than most... and thus might make them even more promiscuous than most... that is, until they start fathering children.*ducks*(Or in the case of a female paladin, she could be very promiscuous with little worry since she won't have to worry about abandoning kin... though probably I would probably NOT interpret the paladin's code this way in one of my own campaigns).In any case, it seems clear that a paladin who decides to marry (for whatever reason) is likely to see his nookie curtailed significantly else he breaks his word of honor in his marriage vows (**insert joke about nookie trailing off significantly after marriage regardless here**).EDIT: Which brings one other thought to my mind... in such a culture, would promiscuity among male paladins be frowned upon while promiscuity among female paladins not bring dishonor... i.e., kind of the reverse of the mentality a couple of decades ago where men were supposed to be somewhat sexually experienced and could attain that experience without social disgrace, but a woman gaining sexual experience was frowned upon (which, of course, makes one wonder where the men got all their experience...)?  Just an interesting turn of the tables, I guess. --The Sigil</blockquote>

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