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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5685612" data-attributes="member: 32740">1. DM's decide what the requirements of a paladins behavior are - what is acceptable, what is not.  These should be decided before play ever begins especially if the DM anticipates ever specifically challenging the paladin player with a moral question. 2. DM's MUST communicate to the player what he has decided as noted above.  Obviously it is best that this be done before it ever becomes an issue, but it is similarly possible for a DM to simply INFORM the player that his intended course of action WILL OR WILL NOT call his morality into question - AND WHY.  Paladins who are IGNORANT of what is acceptible morality CANNOT become paladins in the first place.  It's illogical.  Paladins EXEMPLIFY moral behavior and cannot do so if they can't even define it, much less know how to adhere to it.  Players who have not been informed by the DM of the details of their class and alignment restrictions as the DM interprets them to be cannot be held responsible for that DM's failures in that regard. 3.  In ANY circumstance in which a DM has failed to identify beforehand what a paladin IS ALLOWED to find morally acceptable that DM has BY DEFAULT given permission to the player to reach his own conclusions without being punished for failing to GUESS correctly.</blockquote>