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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3300200" data-attributes="member: 48965">This is exactly my point.  To me and too most people I think a Paladin is good before he is lawful.  Yes a code can be infallible.  Ex. Paladin has captured a prisoner who has hidden an evil artifact in a village that will, in a limited amount of time, turn the villagers into undead. is he justified in torturing the man, poisoning him etc. if time is running out?  Under Lawful Good:"Combines honor and compassion"  is torture honorable?Under Neutral Good:"Doing what is good without bias for law or chaos" Yep saving a village from undeath is good. Whether your actions are chaotic or lawful as long as they result in good.I think you are confused. I said I think a paldin should be Neutral Good not Lawful Neutral.  I think what you're saying above supports this assumption, since in the end the Paladin should be more concerned with good than law.So in the above example the paladin would let the village become undead?  If not he is acting in a neutral good manner.Yeah its called Neutral Good.It's Neutral Good, my point is he does the greatest good without necessarily staying in what our society considers "lawful" behavior.  Arguably he accomplishes more actual good in acting this way than a Lawful Good person would.I'm not talking about deciding what exactly is the greater good, I'm talking about once defined what is more important...1.)Following a strict code that may or may not be effective in achieving what the ultimate purpose is.2.) Achieving that goal if, through a higher power than yourself you know that to be the most important thing</blockquote>

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