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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7205243" data-attributes="member: 6787650">It's hard to say for sure without knowing the details, but from the OP I think, if the paladin were my own PC, that I'd be approaching this as if the elven queen were a close friend desperately looking for another hit of cocaine. I'm not necessarily going to lecture her on the need to reform (unless I think she'd be receptive), and I'm not necessarily going to expose her sins to public view (it may not be my place to do so), and I do feel compassion for her--but I'm not eager to enable her and I'm not going to tell myself that getting her that hit of cocaine is "for the greater good." It's just a dead end.In the specific case, whether or not I choose to go seek her lost journal is probably going to be determined by my assessment of the long-term impact my going or not going would have on OTHER people (like other PCs, the queen's children, and the king), not on the queen. Maybe for me, getting the journal back isn't the point, because the queen's a lost cause and the journal really isn't any of my business. Maybe for me the point is that my friends need my help, and that getting this journal back from the illithids is something that's important enough to them to risk their lives, and so I'm willing to put my life on the line for my friends and do all the good I can along the way for everyone else too. Maybe I'm playing Michael Carpenter to everyone else's Harry Dresden.Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before destination, paladin.</blockquote>

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