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<blockquote data-quote="Sam" data-source="post: 3667144" data-attributes="member: 1024">So we're playing my campaign last night, and things were moving along fairly well.&nbsp; In and of itself that's surprising because it's a pretty large group (8 players) and we've been playing together so long that it normally winds up turning into a dysfunctional family rather than a cohesive party.&nbsp; But we've been playing a new campaign for a few weeks and people are aglow with the headiness of being able to level a character every session or two.Anyway, we're wrapping up a combat.&nbsp; Prior to the combat starting, some of the party made an agreement with an invisible NPC to essentially work together.&nbsp; They had similar goals.&nbsp; The party was looking for a specific item in a house (guarded by fighters and animals) and the invisible NPC was looking for something else in the house.&nbsp; The party is all human (again a surprising fact); one of the members is a paladin (and the only LG member of the party).&nbsp; The pally was involved when the party made the arrangement with the NPC.&nbsp; So, turns out the NPC was an imp that was invisible.&nbsp; During the combat the imp assisted the party, and after the combat the party found what they wanted, as did the imp.&nbsp; But as things are wrapping up, the paladin attacks the imp, smites him, and kills him with one critical smiting hit.This started some discussion at the table about the paladin's actions.&nbsp; The members of the party that made the agreement with the invisible imp were offended that the paladin broke their deal and thought it went against his lawful nature.&nbsp; He took the position that evil outsiders should be killed/banished/etc. whenever possible.I sat back and enjoyed the interplay at the table and will award roleplaying xp for it, but I'm not sure if he should have any repercussions as a paladin for his actions.&nbsp; Any thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sam, post: 3667144, member: 1024"] So we're playing my campaign last night, and things were moving along fairly well. In and of itself that's surprising because it's a pretty large group (8 players) and we've been playing together so long that it normally winds up turning into a dysfunctional family rather than a cohesive party. But we've been playing a new campaign for a few weeks and people are aglow with the headiness of being able to level a character every session or two. Anyway, we're wrapping up a combat. Prior to the combat starting, some of the party made an agreement with an invisible NPC to essentially work together. They had similar goals. The party was looking for a specific item in a house (guarded by fighters and animals) and the invisible NPC was looking for something else in the house. The party is all human (again a surprising fact); one of the members is a paladin (and the only LG member of the party). The pally was involved when the party made the arrangement with the NPC. So, turns out the NPC was an imp that was invisible. During the combat the imp assisted the party, and after the combat the party found what they wanted, as did the imp. But as things are wrapping up, the paladin attacks the imp, smites him, and kills him with one critical smiting hit. This started some discussion at the table about the paladin's actions. The members of the party that made the agreement with the invisible imp were offended that the paladin broke their deal and thought it went against his lawful nature. He took the position that evil outsiders should be killed/banished/etc. whenever possible. I sat back and enjoyed the interplay at the table and will award roleplaying xp for it, but I'm not sure if he should have any repercussions as a paladin for his actions. Any thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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