Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 6316172" data-attributes="member: 9037">I most certainly hold clerics to the same standards as paladins I use the Kingdoms of Kalamar rule that clerics have to be the same alignment as their deity. And clerics can lose powers or worse have their powers supplied by an evil deity this putting the taint of evil on them. A player should certainly be allowed to play his character anyway he wants to. And as DM I can play how the NPCs react to that character in the way I think makes sense. I don't need a hard fast rule to give consequences to players. I am very creative at coming up with both good and bad consequences. I have had the displeasure of playing with players who want all the goodies of a cleric of paladin and then act totally immoral and my experience is that with those type of players you can't reign them in they will throw the biggest tantrum if you try. My solution is to simply not play with them because I am not interested in playing a role playing light style of DnD. How I handle a player who imo as DM is coming close to facing some kind of consequence is to talk to them out of game about it. If they are willing to continue on the path of falling then they know there will be some kind of role playing consequence.  I rarely have issues with the actual player playing paladins the issues come from other players who feel it is acceptable to tell a paladin how to play. One of my hard fast rules to prevent this is that no one is allowed to question how another player is playing their character at the table. They are to come to me about it privately. Now that does not mean that they can't role play their PCs having an issue with another PC about that PCs actions. I also never talk about an issue with it in front of everyone that leads to arguments and often makes the player in question fell ganged up on. And lastly I am the DM I have the final say if you don't like my decision then you are free to leave the game or as my roommate told a player who was arguing with her about the cleric actions being evil " I am playing Herineous in this campaign I don't have a problem with my follower actions when you DM feel free to play Herineous anyway you want".</blockquote>

Verification