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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falcon" data-source="post: 226141" data-attributes="member: 1056">What might be interesting is to have us post characters from books, movies, and real life who you consider to be paladins, and why.  I am personally of the opinion that every deity and code can have a holy warrior, and that, in order to secure the graces and power that come with the particular deity or code, a paladin/holy warrior will need to determine the conseqeunces of their actions.  As with every other one who preceeded them. No one is perfect, but people can try to do their best.  The fallacy of the paladin tension in games is that everyone expects a paladin to be perfect.  If a player honestly wrestles with the moral consequences of their actions, then they are playing a proper paladin. A DM should develop scenarios that allow the paladin several choices, not the simple cop-out of choice X is right, choice Y is wrong.Watch Excalibur or any other movie on knights.  They are continually portrayed as a human with all our foibles trying to maintain an ideal.   They do the best they can..  Address the potential of the paladin; don't force them into actions of suicide or eternal repentance.</blockquote>