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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mattcolville" data-source="post: 444518" data-attributes="member: 1300">One of the things I always think of when I think of Lawful Good is Batman. Frank Miller's Batman from the Dark Knight Returns. Specifically the issue with Harvey Dent turning back into Two Face. Batman *believes* in Dent, believes Dent can be a good person, can defeat his personal demons. Tries to help, always thinks the best of Dent until he's absolutely, 100% sure that Dent's gone bad again, and then he's really upset by it.Miller's Batman wants his girl Robin to stand up straight, behave well, have discipline, respect her elders.Miller's Batman used to believe in the rule of Law but has become dissillusioned, but that's primarily because of the *failure* of the rule of law in Miller's setting. He still believes that law and justice *should* be the same thing. He breaks the law, but A: that's setting specific, his behavior in a medieval fuedal setting would be very paladin like, where knights *were* the law and B: he breaks the law but he *believes* in Law, believes that people need laws and those laws need to be enforced.I'm about to start playing a Paladin in my buddy Jim's 3E Dragonquest game. I plan on using these traits. However, where Batman is a loner, I want to be someone who encourages others to follow his lead through reasoned expression of personal philosophy. I want thought-provoking reasons to do the right thing, to expect others to do the right thing. I want to provide compelling reasons to do good that shame others around me into doing the same thing.Should be interesting.</blockquote>

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