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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7818139" data-attributes="member: 42582">Please re-read my posts. I've said nothing about "welcome to being a fighter". I've said very little about GMing except to praise the approach of my GM in the Burning Wheel campaign where I play a paladin (technically, a Knight of a Holy Military Order).As for the suggestion that my approach makes playing paladins a drag on the game: I GM a 4e game with two paladins (technically one is a fighter/cleric but that's a mere technicality) as well as an invoker and a religiously devout sorcerer. At the moment the main game I'm GMing is Prince Valiant, with three knight PCs, two of who are respectively Master and Marshall of a holy order (the Order of St Sigobert). And as I already mentioned I play a paladin in the BW campaign that I play in. (For the past 10 years I have not played a PC who is not a paladin.)If you're interested in my views on GM-adjudicated/enforced alignment, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/why-i-dont-like-alignment-in-fantasy-rpgs.299362/" target="_blank">they haven't changed since I started this thread in 2011</a>.But I didn't enter this thread in response to a question about my views on GMing, or alignment mechanics. You asked how to reconcile the Cap/Bucky scene with the view that the OP paladin did the wrong thing. That's all. And I replied to that with an analysis that I think any undergrad moral philosophy student would recognise as familiar. (Whether or not they personally agree with the morality of duty and ethic of honour.)Why is the DM the source of divine providence? Where is that written?We have character abilities. We have player-side resources. We have the framing of stakes. We have the roll of the dice. The whole panoply of action resolution. The 5e rulebooks don't define action resolution as whatever the GM decides, happens.</blockquote>

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