Paladins and Behavior

[Sir Elton]

All right. You guys clinched it. You all who have participated in the Paladin thread have demonstrated a need for a game mechanic to help you roleplay better. I can't stand it anymore.

I'm going to write down my Virtues and Passions system so that you can have a system to define behavior for your Paladin and all your other characters. Jeeze, you guys complain about the Paladin, but NONE OF YOU WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! Except propose getting rid of a class that represents the Protagonist archetype in every concievable way.

I guess the concept of the Paladin is too exact and too loose to be beyond your understanding according to the current rules. So, I am going to write down these rules and present three kinds of paladins, all who behave differently but are Lawful Good in every concievable way.

They will be a Christian Paladin, an Olympic Paladin, and a Confucian Paladin. If any of you complain, your are free to define the cardinal virtues for your favored religion and make a paladin out of them.

You guys suck when somebody has to come up with a solution for you.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

hmmm, too bad only the first poster in a thread can post a poll, I'd really like to see a structured ranking of this particular troll attempt. Lets say one to 5 where five is "Hong better watch his back" and one is "wow that was lame".

I'm gonna go with a 1.5 really only giving the .5 for using a somewhat inviting thread title.

Kahuna Burger

 

[jerichothebard]

Irony

Jeeze, you guys complain about the Paladin, but NONE OF YOU WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! ... You guys suck when somebody has to come up with a solution for you.

i·ro·ny n. pl. i·ro·nies
1 - The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2 - An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3 - A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.
4 - Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “A trolling post with the title, Paladin Behavior” (Richard Kain).

excerpted from www.dictionary.com, with a little editorial license by yours truly.



Too bad, in a way, I would like to see such a mechanic. But the intro certainly turns me off.


jtb

 

[Flyspeck23]

hmmm, too bad only the first poster in a thread can post a poll, I'd really like to see a structured ranking of this particular troll attempt. Lets say one to 5 where five is "Hong better watch his back" and one is "wow that was lame".

I'm gonna go with a 1.5 really only giving the .5 for using a somewhat inviting thread title.

Kahuna Burger

2.7 - because this phrase really got me thinking: "too exact and too loose to be beyond your understanding"

 

[shilsen]

I'm going to write down my Virtues and Passions system so that you can have a system to define behavior for your Paladin and all your other characters. Jeeze, you guys complain about the Paladin, but NONE OF YOU WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! Except propose getting rid of a class that represents the Protagonist archetype in every concievable way.

Been there, done that, got the full-plate armor. Three years ago I wrote an article on the paladin's code, complete with a list of virtues a particular paladin could espouse, and examples of sample paladins with the virtues one of them would choose. It was published online in Asgard Magazine (can't recall the volume), which used to be available on ENWorld and presumably still is. So go do a search and cut the ranting (I'm assuming that's what this is, rather than a troll).

 

[BSF]

*laugh* This makes me laugh too. Obviously I missed the discussion that set Sir Elton off. I figured by now everyone was tired of my "It's important for the DM and the player to agree on what the Paladin's Code of Conduct entails" soapbox. This is, of course, followed up by my pointing out that I believe every Code of Conduct should be geared around the individual paladin to encompass how and why they became a paladin and that is exactly what I do with my players. As well, I will gleefully point out that a Paladin need not worship a specific deity, and that they could even hold themselves to an abstract, universal concept and derive their powers there. Hence, the need for individuality in a COC, etc.

If you can't find the issue of Asgard, I will happily check my PDF archive at home. But, I certainly don't need your Passions and Virtues system. I'm not sure who "you guys" covers, but it obviously isn't me.