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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3279617" data-attributes="member: 1465">I don't know if I understand right, but I'll assume that the Paladin made an honest mistake (otherwise, if he deliberately broke his word for good purposes a bigger atonement should be considered - and if he did for non-good purposes [including &quot;just to make his life easier&quot;] maybe no atonement could be enough).In case of an honest mistake or an overlook, I wouldn't be too hard, and maybe I'd even just require to seek for a cleric, get the atonement spell, describe it as a &quot;prayer session&quot;, and nothing else.But of course adding some minor quest or even just a penitence to be done during downtime can bring in some flavor.Some ideas on top of my head:- perform some mundane service for X days (e.g. act as a simple servant at a temple, clean up the stables at the paladin order, build a shrine): some sort of manual labor may be a good penitence especially if the breaking of the code was done for pride- vow to give up something that the paladin likes for X months (assuming the paladin still has something to give up, like a minor vice)- renounce to use one device or feature during the next X weeks, for example his favourite sword or spell or his mount: don't necessarily make the feature stop functioning, let the feature work as usual so that he has to resist using it. This makes adventuring slightly more difficult, but be careful that the penalty is just a burden for the paladin without actually increasing too much the risk of failure (evil should not really have an advantage!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 3279617, member: 1465"] I don't know if I understand right, but I'll assume that the Paladin made an honest mistake (otherwise, if he deliberately broke his word for good purposes a bigger atonement should be considered - and if he did for non-good purposes [including "just to make his life easier"] maybe no atonement could be enough). In case of an honest mistake or an overlook, I wouldn't be too hard, and maybe I'd even just require to seek for a cleric, get the atonement spell, describe it as a "prayer session", and nothing else. But of course adding some minor quest or even just a penitence to be done during downtime can bring in some flavor. Some ideas on top of my head: - perform some mundane service for X days (e.g. act as a simple servant at a temple, clean up the stables at the paladin order, build a shrine): some sort of manual labor may be a good penitence especially if the breaking of the code was done for pride - vow to give up something that the paladin likes for X months (assuming the paladin still has something to give up, like a minor vice) - renounce to use one device or feature during the next X weeks, for example his favourite sword or spell or his mount: don't necessarily make the feature stop functioning, let the feature work as usual so that he has to resist using it. This makes adventuring slightly more difficult, but be careful that the penalty is just a burden for the paladin without actually increasing too much the risk of failure (evil should not really have an advantage!) [/QUOTE]

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