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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 5676579" data-attributes="member: 6668292">"We don't know he did it, but we suspect he did. I think his murdering the near-fatally injured paladin who has been helping protect the town is a bad sign.""And he didn't. We've seen that group in the past, and while there's been tension, we have a history of not attacking that group, and our dead paladin companion is no exception. He confronted an Evil character about a demonic portal that he suspected he was responsible for opening. He didn't attack, and he was murdered for it."Yep, corrupt government. Totally within the bounds of what's possible. I've used them before. But this is just an excuse.Again, if this is the government, it's a corrupt one. They aren't looking into the well-being of the populace, they're looking to get paid off.When it overwhelms good forces, and he thinks the town is in mortal danger? Who thinks paladins are unfeeling sociopaths? I mean, that's the Evil swordsage right there, not the paladin.A lot of groups feel like getting the law involved is contributing. If something is above their pay grade, going to the person (or usually people) who can handle it is a contribution. It's no different from scouting, in the sense that you've spotted danger, and you're reporting it to the guy who has the muscle to deal with it.You can run it any way you'd like, if this was you, and that's cool if that's what your group liked. But your above reasoning isn't something that refutes what I said. My players would (and I do) find the first couple of responses really weak, and the next few just indicate a corrupt government (which is definitely fine to use). But to say that the government wouldn't get involved if it was flipped around? I really disagree unless the government is corrupt (which is possible). It's in the community's best interest to stop the Villain. And that most certainly wasn't the paladin.As always, play what you like <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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