Finding your roleplaying style

[WHW4]

I only just noticed this:Chaotic? Evil? Paladin? Of Pelor?

I thought Pelor was supposed to be a Goodly type - so why would He accept paladinic vows from someone so obviously opposed to His aims in the first place?

I've no problem with CE Clerics (I still have Paladins as LG only) as PCs; but I do have a problem with them being in service to a Good deity.

Lanefan

I saw that too, and I just figured it was a corner case (Pelor knows I've seen stranger). What I am completely unable to wrap my head around is how that paladin stayed alive after the encounter.

 

[Argyle King]

I don't know enough about the 4e power library to tell if this was an inherent issue with the concept or his power selection, but that sounds very poor.



Well, that's just being a dick.

Some of the 4E classes favor certain weapons; some of the powers only being usable with those weapons. For example, rogues need to use light blades; a lot of barbarian powers require you to be using a two handed weapon; etc.

Wow. Just wow, man. That paladin wouldn't have lived through the night. If I was the ranger he would have died alone and naked in the wilderness. How did the other party members react?

I only just noticed this:Chaotic? Evil? Paladin? Of Pelor?

I thought Pelor was supposed to be a Goodly type - so why would He accept paladinic vows from someone so obviously opposed to His aims in the first place?

I've no problem with CE Clerics (I still have Paladins as LG only) as PCs; but I do have a problem with them being in service to a Good deity.

Lanefan

The other party members attacked and killed him.

As for the chaotic evil part... there's not an alignment enforcement on paladins in 4E the same way there is in previous editions. When making a paladin, it says to choose a god of a compatible alignment; however, there's nothing to my knowledge (unless DM fiat were to say otherwise) that stops a paladin from changing alignment and still retaining their full power.

edit: To clarify though, he didn't proclaim to be evil. His character sheet said Good; his actions very obviously said otherwise.

 

[WHW4]

The other party members attacked and killed him.

As for the chaotic evil part... there's not an alignment enforcement on paladins in 4E the same way there is in previous editions. When making a paladin, it says to choose a god of a compatible alignment; however, there's nothing to my knowledge (unless DM fiat were to say otherwise) that stops a paladin from changing alignment and still retaining their full power.

edit: To clarify though, he didn't proclaim to be evil. His character sheet said Good; his actions very obviously said otherwise.

Well at least they took care of it. Good on the rest of the party.

As to the alignment issue, I think some things are implied when playing a Paladin (such as not being a murderous turd) that any regular reader would get from even a cursory scan of the class entry.

This has really gotten me interested, Johnny3D3D. Was he deliberately trying to "game" the class by picking an acceptable alignment and then just doing what he pleased? Or was he RPing an alignment shift (which I have done also, but it did not go Good to Chaotic Evil; more like CG to CN)? Sometimes I find the dissolving of the two-axis alignment system to be a pain to deal with when it comes to situations like these.

 

[Argyle King]

Well at least they took care of it. Good on the rest of the party.

As to the alignment issue, I think some things are implied when playing a Paladin (such as not being a murderous turd) that any regular reader would get from even a cursory scan of the class entry.

This has really gotten me interested, Johnny3D3D. Was he deliberately trying to "game" the glass by picking an acceptable alignment and then just doing what he pleased? Or was he RPing an alignment shift (which I have done also, but it did not go Good to Chaotic Evil; more like CG to CN)? Sometimes I find the dissolving of the two-axis alignment system to be a pain to deal with when it comes to situations like these.

I'm pretty sure he was trying to 'game the glass.'

While I do consider the guy a friend, and he's a good player in other types of games, he has some ideas about playing rpgs which are difficult to reconcile with the rest of the group. He's a pretty good example of a 'breaker.' To give another example, in one campaign, when the GM asked for characters to be given serious names due to the tone of the campaign, he named his character Fluffy Mcpants (edited to attempt to respect the TOS as much as possible while conveying the name of the character.)

edit: nevermind, it was auto edited.