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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7813909" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>The point is that you're assuming that the player knew it was a battle of wits. You're punishing a player because they didn't play the way you wanted them to play.</p><p></p><p>Let's put it this way. Let's say the paladin wasn't carrying the NPC. Instead they were rushing to save them but the dragon gets there first and has time to eat the NPC before the paladin can do anything. Would it be murder? What if they're running to save the PC and the dragon gets there first but hasn't eaten the NPC yet. Would it be murder if the paladin looks at the dragon and decides there's no way in heck he can defeat said dragon and stops?</p><p></p><p>I had a scenario long ago where there were innocent villagers being hung from posts. The villagers had sacks on their heads and the first one they tried taking down turned into a troll. Without checking the others, they killed them all without verifying and it turned out that some of them could have been saved.</p><p></p><p>So I stripped the paladin of divine power until they had a chance to atone (they had to undergo a side quest). While I disagree that the paladin committed murder, a one time act does not make a paladin an oathbreaker. It has to be a conscious ongoing decision that the PC makes, not a one time mistake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7813909, member: 6801845"] The point is that you're assuming that the player knew it was a battle of wits. You're punishing a player because they didn't play the way you wanted them to play. Let's put it this way. Let's say the paladin wasn't carrying the NPC. Instead they were rushing to save them but the dragon gets there first and has time to eat the NPC before the paladin can do anything. Would it be murder? What if they're running to save the PC and the dragon gets there first but hasn't eaten the NPC yet. Would it be murder if the paladin looks at the dragon and decides there's no way in heck he can defeat said dragon and stops? I had a scenario long ago where there were innocent villagers being hung from posts. The villagers had sacks on their heads and the first one they tried taking down turned into a troll. Without checking the others, they killed them all without verifying and it turned out that some of them could have been saved. So I stripped the paladin of divine power until they had a chance to atone (they had to undergo a side quest). While I disagree that the paladin committed murder, a one time act does not make a paladin an oathbreaker. It has to be a conscious ongoing decision that the PC makes, not a one time mistake. [/QUOTE]
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