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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3310523" data-attributes="member: 1656">This is a key point any time anyone plays a paladin.  Before the game begins, the DM and the player need to make sure they're on the same page regarding what the paladin's code entails.If I'm DMing a serious game, I'd consider a paladin who started hacking on someone in a tavern because they radiated evil to be exceeding their mandate.If I'm DMing a beer-and-pretzels game, I'd consider a paladin who started hacking on someone in a tavern because they radiated evil to be successfully snatching at the plot hook.But I wouldn't DM a paladin without making sure the player knew what I expected, and if there's a fundamental disconnect between our views, we need to either resolve it somehow, or the player's better off going with another class.Similarly, I once played under a DM who declared that a Paladin/Rogue multiclass was an impossibility, because "Rogues are thieves, and paladins can't steal".  That made me pretty determined to play neither a paladin nor a rogue under her (and before very long had passed, anything else either!), since our views on the classes were too dissimilar.-Hyp.</blockquote>