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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1856012" data-attributes="member: 4910">This is all Sejs-Brand Oppinion stuff here, but:Yeah, paladins can go insane.  They're immune to disease, they can handle icky stuff without flinching, they can walk thru a plague-stricken village without fear.  Insanity, however, isn't a disease.  You don't catch it from anything.  If you use a crazy person's toothbrush you don't go nutso yourself.  It's an affliction rather than an infection.Personally, what I would do with your Paladin On A Rampage - he went too far in what he thought was fighting the good fight; something happened and he was given a choice in what to do and boy howdy did he ever choose poorly.  Willingly sacrificed innocents to what he thought was the greater good in order to lure out some baddies, or what have you.  Stuff that would even make Batman frown and shake his head.  He gets his status yoinked.  But instead of going and realizing what he's done wrong, he goes far off the deep end in the other direction - he figures the reason he's being punished is because he didn't go far enough in his persuit of the Big Pervasive Evil.  So he figures the only way he can get back into the Light is to do so atop a mountain of the dead.  There's only two kinds of people in his mind; the wicked that need to die for their wrongdoings, however small, and the pure, who would gladly sacrifice themselves to see this evil cleansed.  Even if they don't say so.  In their hearts, a good man would be happy to die for the right cause.  If not, then maybe they wern't so pure to begin with...</blockquote>

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