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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 1551577" data-attributes="member: 9037">There are so many reasons why there will always be threads like this. People have different views of what they want out of a game if you want a simple black and white then by all means go and smite away but if you want a deeper game then detecting evil=smites is not as much fun.I have been watching the first season of Xena and I was thinking about this if a paladin read her before she changed I am sure that she would have radiated a strong evil so if he just smited her he would have taken an evil warlord out of the world but as we know Xena had it in her to be redeemed and become a strong force for good. Trying to allow someone a chance to redeem themselves seems a much better goal for a paladin than to just kill and kill. I would also like to point out that there are spells that change alignment what if this person has had it cast on them? The paladin comes across detects evil then kills an innocent person. A paladin should be wise enough to know that it might be a good idea to investigate rather than just charge in sword swinging. Follow the guy see what he is up to you might actually accomplish more good by doing so because you uncover a plot to bring a great evil into the world and you now have a chance to stop it. If you kill him and go on your way you then have no idea that a group of evil doers have something bad planned.Pladins are supposed to be champions of good and fight evil it just dosen't seem very productive to just kill evil beings without finding out what they are up to first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 1551577, member: 9037"] There are so many reasons why there will always be threads like this. People have different views of what they want out of a game if you want a simple black and white then by all means go and smite away but if you want a deeper game then detecting evil=smites is not as much fun. I have been watching the first season of Xena and I was thinking about this if a paladin read her before she changed I am sure that she would have radiated a strong evil so if he just smited her he would have taken an evil warlord out of the world but as we know Xena had it in her to be redeemed and become a strong force for good. Trying to allow someone a chance to redeem themselves seems a much better goal for a paladin than to just kill and kill. I would also like to point out that there are spells that change alignment what if this person has had it cast on them? The paladin comes across detects evil then kills an innocent person. A paladin should be wise enough to know that it might be a good idea to investigate rather than just charge in sword swinging. Follow the guy see what he is up to you might actually accomplish more good by doing so because you uncover a plot to bring a great evil into the world and you now have a chance to stop it. If you kill him and go on your way you then have no idea that a group of evil doers have something bad planned. Pladins are supposed to be champions of good and fight evil it just dosen't seem very productive to just kill evil beings without finding out what they are up to first. [/QUOTE]

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