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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 1549122" data-attributes="member: 3586">Now, my preceding explanation is based upon the wilderness setting. What happens when the Laws of Man must also be taken into account?In the event of a Good society, the Paladin will work within the laws. It is most likely the laws are framed as to allow the Paladin to work unfettered, but if not, institutions will exist for the Paladin to leave evil-doers with.In the event of an Evil society, the laws have no bearing on the Paladin - they are not Righteous and it is likely the Paladin is working to bring about the regime's overthrow in any case. (Greater Evil and all that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)In the event of a Neutral society, it is still likely that there are facilities for imprisonment, in which case the Paladin will use those if possible. In all cases, the Paladin's actions must also be taken dependent on what happens to the Paladin afterward! The Paladin will not attack an evil creature if that will almost certainly result in the Paladin's death or imprisonment - well, not unless the stakes are very high. Cheers!</blockquote>