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<blockquote data-quote="focallength" data-source="post: 2241248" data-attributes="member: 30199">How do you run your paladins or how do you run your characters paladins?&nbsp;Every paladin Ive ever played the DM has tried his best to screw me over. Why is this? why is it that a DM thinks a paladin is their personal play thing to torment or find any stupid little strech of the rules to make a paladin lose paladinhood? Ive had Paladins do everything in their power to end a conflict peacefully taking tons of damage in the process, only to realise that the BBEG wasnt going to give up and stomped him flat only to have him yell &quot;I surrender&quot; just before the last blows cleaves him in two. Then the DM says &quot;well...he tried to surrender to you and you killed him...your god revokes your paladinhood&quot; of course every bad guy says they surrender when they see their deaths coming, thats why theyre bad guys theyre cowards.Ive had DMs make me walk entire groups of villians chained up to the nearest authorities, only to have them A: escape and kill me in my sleep or b: escape and then I get blamed for letting a bunch of BBEG's loose in the realms and get my paladinhood revoked. Let me clarify something for all the DM's out there who do this. A paladin is a holy warrior, a knight. A paladin will accept surrender when its genuine and when its right. A group of humans commiting genocide do not deserve mercy. Did they show mercy when they slaughtered hundreds? no. Will a paladin march a BBEG across the country to have him stand trial in a far off land? most likely not he will engage the enemy and destroy him, unless hes too much of a coward to fight then sure tie him up and take him to the king, then let the king cut his head off. I could go on for pages and pages but I want to hear from people with horror stories and DM's who think they have everyright to torment a player with a paladin.&nbsp;Heres hoping my new DM and group dont continue this trend, cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="focallength, post: 2241248, member: 30199"] How do you run your paladins or how do you run your characters paladins? Every paladin Ive ever played the DM has tried his best to screw me over. Why is this? why is it that a DM thinks a paladin is their personal play thing to torment or find any stupid little strech of the rules to make a paladin lose paladinhood? Ive had Paladins do everything in their power to end a conflict peacefully taking tons of damage in the process, only to realise that the BBEG wasnt going to give up and stomped him flat only to have him yell "I surrender" just before the last blows cleaves him in two. Then the DM says "well...he tried to surrender to you and you killed him...your god revokes your paladinhood" of course every bad guy says they surrender when they see their deaths coming, thats why theyre bad guys theyre cowards. Ive had DMs make me walk entire groups of villians chained up to the nearest authorities, only to have them A: escape and kill me in my sleep or b: escape and then I get blamed for letting a bunch of BBEG's loose in the realms and get my paladinhood revoked. Let me clarify something for all the DM's out there who do this. A paladin is a holy warrior, a knight. A paladin will accept surrender when its genuine and when its right. A group of humans commiting genocide do not deserve mercy. Did they show mercy when they slaughtered hundreds? no. Will a paladin march a BBEG across the country to have him stand trial in a far off land? most likely not he will engage the enemy and destroy him, unless hes too much of a coward to fight then sure tie him up and take him to the king, then let the king cut his head off. I could go on for pages and pages but I want to hear from people with horror stories and DM's who think they have everyright to torment a player with a paladin. Heres hoping my new DM and group dont continue this trend, cheers! [/QUOTE]

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