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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 1885957" data-attributes="member: 8848">Somebody's probably already said this, but...This was more-or-less covered in the Quest for Glory IV -- Paladins can't go around doing the entire sexual liberation thing unless you've got a whole lot of contraceptives and no STDs because it's wholly irresponsible of them to go having a bunch of kids (all of whom are loved and wanted, right) because they may be laying down their life for the greater good tomorrow and leaving grieving widows waiting for them to come home -- never mind the example that it sets for the peasants that don't have Divine Health or whatever it's called these days.If you're not familiar with QfG4, part of a quest is to recover the gear of a long-dead paladin who got killed by a barrow-wight, leaving behind a pregnant fiance who thought that she'd been dumped thus her kid spites anybody who claims to be honorable.  You give the gear to the now-grown kid to prove that there is such a thing as honor, yadda yadda blah blah.  But really you're thinking to the paladin's ghost "Geez, couldn't you have kept it in your pants until *after* you offed that last barrow wight?"The short of it is this: Starting a family isn't really compatible with a job which will ultimately result in you dying painfully and possibly alone if you just keep at it long enough.That said, I fully expect that a retired Paladin would readily start a family -- using Lay Hands on skinned knees instead of going toe-to-toe with a Pit Fiend, you know?  But if you've still got a hankering for Pit Fiends, then it's irresponsible to leave all those skinned knees in the lurch.Above and beyond all that, I don't think that the wild-and-promiscuous(sp?) type would really qualify as a Paladin due to the lawlessness involved.  After all, bards are specifically not allowed to be lawful, while Paladins are required to be Lawful Good.On a related note... <a href="http://www.madman.com.au/tism/comp.html" target="_blank">http://www.madman.com.au/tism/comp.html</a>::Kaze (notes that none of the active LotR protagonists settled down for family life until after Sauron was destroyed -- not that they were paladins, but why would paladins behave more recklessly?)</blockquote>

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