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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 2179410" data-attributes="member: 29663">Yeah, I think you are fine too, but it depends on his specific diety and code of conduct.  If you don't have one written out, do that before you start playing, that should send a definitive message to the player that he is suspect of wrong-doing/needs to check himself.Example of prior paladin-loss:We were part of a multi-faceted team of 'good guys' that were organizing and training newbs so we could win against the multi-faceted team of 'bad-guys' who were pretty much doing the same thing and awaiting the prophecised return of the uber-uber bad guy to start their attack.  Our party was high level, but not epic, and had built a whole island city stronghold during the campaign, the works (chars were played from level1).  We got intel that the bad guys had an arcane academy set up in their main city and were cranking out low-level mages as quickly as possible.  So our plan was to go there and shut the school down.  We bamf in and the mages in the party start raining fire down on this academy building while everyone is inside asleep in their beds.  I'm like 'No stop!' and they say 'You're right, we should be setting fire from the bottom and inside, so the weight-bearing walls collapse and trap everyone.  Go guard the front door and hack anyone that tries to leave.'  At that, they teleport inside the building and I go to the front door, where no one tries to leave (burned alive).The DM ruled that I should have done everything in my power to protect the helpless students even though they were not only evil but our enemies.  My argument was that I was a 'DUTY' based paladin and my duty was to defeat the enemy forces, protect my city, and (to a lesser extent) follow the orders of my party leader within reason.  I atoned pretty quickly, and had to somewhat distance myself from the aggressive party in order to stick more tightly to the DMs idea of duty.  I later sacrificed the paladin to return stability to the plane, enfusing the entire plane with my lawful-goodness.Hope that helps?</blockquote>

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