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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liolel" data-source="post: 1537100" data-attributes="member: 1766">Ok the first time a paladin would do something like that in my campaign they would at least loose their abilitys for a few days as a warning. That is not an act that a true paladin would do. Someone who does this stuff may think he was a paladin, but if he kept it up he would lose any powers that he had. This includes those paladins that use detect evil as a license to kill. The problem here is that some dms are to merciful when it comes to aligment. If something happens once or twice then the player can come off with a warning. But if this happened regularly like in you example then this would be a time to use an eraser on the word good on the sheet. Alignment may start with what the player chooses but in the end its the characters actions which deterimines their real alignment not two words written at character creation.  Now on whether theft or killing is worst, it all depends on the circumstances. Stealing from a poor family with 5 kids, is worse then killing a goblin that ambushed you on the road. On the other hand stealing from a greedy merchant, is much better then killing the good and just mayor. So there are circumstances where one is a more virtueous choice then the other, and circumstances where one turns out to not be evil at all. I mean is there anyone who wouldn't put Robinhoods alignment at one of the good alignments and he is one of the most famous theives of all.</blockquote>

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