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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 7818097" data-attributes="member: 463">Depends on the oath, the PC's Alignment, the PC's god's alignment...AFAICS in 5e you can have neutral & evil Paladins who could do this within their oath, though you could also have a Judge Dredd LN Paladin who certainly would defend helpless citizens to the death.Ultimately the GM has to decide how their world works. I wouldn't necessarily go for what is most fun for the player in the moment - eg PC death is rarely fun, but the possibility of it makes for a better game IMO. I could see the Paladin losing their powers 1e-style, or just suffering social repercussions, or even being sought out by a dark power and becoming an Oathbreaker.Edit: I have to say, if I were playing my LG Oath of the Ancients Tanuki Paladin of Amaterasu, there is no way in Hell I would have done what that PC did, and his action falls far short of what I'd expect from a fellow Paladin! He certainly deserves contempt IMO. We had a similar situation at the start of that campaign where our massively outmatched 1st level PCs confronted the BBEG and his minions to defend a peasant village; knowing we would die but still standing up for what was right - and with the enemy unsure of our capability, we were able to negotiate a partial solution. The PC ought to have done the same.But it would be up to Amaterasu how she dealt with it; I am but her humble servant. <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=":)" />Edit 2: I disagree strongly with suggestions that PCs should not be put in difficult/impossible situations. Hard choices are where drama comes from.</blockquote>

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