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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 9660895" data-attributes="member: 59">You're on the right track, though I might complicate it slightly:(1) There should be times when PC knights can't help themselves and act in accordance with their nature instead of the player's desires. The Matter of Britain is lousy with knights overcome by emotion or impulse. Gawain abandons the Grail Quest early in favor of attending to damsels (ahem). He knows that he should be off looking for the Grail, but he can't help himself. He is who he is at the worst moment.(2) I think I'd only call for rolls at times where something is approaching a crisis point. Even a really Honest knight has a score in Deceitful (e.g., Honest 17 still has Deceitful 3), so the capacity for lying is there. Unless it's a BFD in the fiction, I wouldn't roll just because they're lying. But if Sir Ambrut (a PC knight) is accosted at Camelot by a furious Agravain wanting to know if Lancelot is in the Queen's chambers, and Ambrut has a Passion related to the Queen, such that he would want to protect her, even though he knows Lancelot is there, then we'd want to roll.  It really matters whether he can keep stumm or not! Can he overcome his nature?Yep, this is right. There are mechanical bonuses for being an exemplar of your faith, e.g. Wotanic characters gain +1d3 to damage in 1e, if the right Traits are high enough.</blockquote>