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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darklone" data-source="post: 1565903" data-attributes="member: 1372">I just hope I don't miss anything important in the next three pages of posts I didn't read yet ... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As a DM, I like paladin players who don't simply try to use the gameplay advantages a paladin has. E.g. I like to push them into situations similar (usually not as bad as) this one here and check how they react. If the player reacts in a way that shows he's thinking about the typical paladin problems ... he wins. If not, I take care to counteract extensive munchkinism due to Divine Might/Spirited Charge builds... and go on. If he reacts positively, he will usually end up as the center of the campaign. Favoritism by my side, I have to confess, but there's not that much that fascinates me more.I do try not to set traps for him and I will certainly not screw. I see myself as a DM who offers each player his time as superman. Sooo... in a FR campaign that I would run... weow. Long time ago I ran my last FR game. But yes, the last time a PC showed (in my terms) heroic behavior, he was awarded by a shortcut in the campaign difficulties which the group would have not achieved in any other way (e.g. one of the BBEGs was out of order for good). Of course, I introduced a new one... but one without all the connections of the old one, so the players HAD an advantage.Me neither. But they are supposed to try. If it doesn't work, they will work against the greater evil... e.g. setting things right in town, not only molesting small molesters.Right. But that does not mean IMC that the PLAYER acts as the representative if the DM has another opinion. I had this problem in two of my own campaigns and in one where I was a player (not the paladin). Luckily in my own campaigns, I was able to solve it before it actually occured... by talking.By the DMs reaction, I didn't have this feeling. I understood the DMs words as a statement that he understood his paladins different. Otherwise it doesn't really make sense to me (e.g. the player should have been awarded for slaughtering the molester). OTOH, that would be a game that's less interesting to me because human interactions are simplified to a CRPG level <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I have to admit: One of the reasons I don't play the realms (in that way). A world like this doesn't make sense to me... And I do like to see some sense or realism in the actions of NPCs.</blockquote>

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