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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lalato" data-source="post: 1999993" data-attributes="member: 9171">I believe my character was the only one unconscious during the episode.  One other party member was present.  There were two characters that didn't see it... mine and another that was trying to escape from a burning building.a.  It was purse.  It contained some money and a gem.b.  This one is a little harder to answer.  I'll give a bit more background here to help this along.  The Paladin himself did not complain about the looting at first.  The DM pointed out that this was shady behavior and asked the Paladin what he planned to do about it.  This exchange is what caused the "crisis" for the Paladin.  I don't think the DM was trying to foment intraparty conflict here.  I think, perhaps, he was hoping for the player to come up with an in-character way to handle the situation... but his wording was probably not the best, and I think it caused the player to question his decision for playing a Paladin in the first place.  It came down to a discussion of the Paladin's code...   that a Paladin couldn't knowingly associate with morally ambiguous people like the Rogue.  So... that's a long way of saying that it was the looting of the body that caused the "crisis of faith" for the Paladin, but I don't think the Paladin was upset about the looting so much as he was upset about what that said about the Rogue's moral character.It snowballed from there into a discussion on how the Paladin should handle the situation regarding morally ambiguous people he associates with.  We came to the compromise that the Paladin might see such behavior, and if he chose to question it... he would confront the offending party privately to let him know that it was unacceptable, and that he would be watching out for any future infractions.At any rate... that's when the last session ended so we'll see how it ends up affecting the game in the future.  I hope that now that this episode is behind us... we can move forward and have a great campaign.--sam</blockquote>

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