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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knifespeaks" data-source="post: 1855916" data-attributes="member: 25248">Anyone have a point of view on this?I am planning to have an adventure line featuring a paladin who has gone insane - not totally nutsoid, just suffering from a case of homicidal mania.Now, the question I am posing is simply - are paladins able to contract insanity, or would it be considered (as is the case in our modern psych treatments) as a disease? If so, would the affliction, and the actions performed by said pally result in loss of paladinhood?No outside force has caused this insanity, it is simply a case of a mind that has become unstable. There will be a few interesting additional issues for our psycho pally, but I just wanted to get some impressions from the community. My players are pretty relaxed (ie, not hardcore lawyers), but as always - precedents in the campaign world need to be carefully considered before implementation.Homicidal mania (using the first edition DMG here) causes the sufferer to become obsessed with killing (no probs there in a city for a paladin, evil is everywhere), every 1-4 days or so - let's say once a week. Afterwards, the afflicted person falls into a state of melancholia (religious observance perhaps?) for a week before returning to a homicidal state.Paladins, certainly imho anyway, are borderline psychos anyway - they believe in their righteousness with such fervour and fanaticism that it is easy to see them suffering from any number of insanities to some extent. The question is whether the more severe ones cross over into diseases or not.</blockquote>

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