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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus2" data-source="post: 3667286" data-attributes="member: 11586">I think he should have made a side deal with the Imp, killed his party members, and gone Blackguard <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ok...  I agree, if he didn't make the deal and he found out there was an Imp there and his allies helped the Imp, not only was he right in killing the Imp, if anything, he should be upset with the allies that made the agreement.  I don't know why they were upset with him.Also, had he been in on the agreement, or know about it, the first thing the Paladin should have done was used Detect Evil on the invisible person (again, this is assuming he knew there was an invisible "something" there).  Then he could have smited away.  If he neglected to do this, and made a deal with the unknown asailant, later finding out it was an Imp, I would say that any agreement they previously had is null and void the moment he finds ou what the creature is.All in all, the Paladin was right in any instance.Now if they was just an evil person (rather than an Imp), I am usually more into the less lethal ways of dealing with those types of creatures.  Use nonlethal damage, Diplomacy, make an arrest, etc.  Since this was an Imp and I play them as inherently evil (can't usually be redeemed) then I make exceptions for that.All IMHO anyways...</blockquote>

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