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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 435973" data-attributes="member: 1518">Interesting debate you have here.SHARK says that a palading should be interested in winning at all costs, i.e. "...slitting their throats while they are asleep...wasting the rest with as much fire and ferocity as possible...etc."Celebrim says that a paladin should be honorable and chivalrous, even if it means his life.I think that a paladin must be balanced.  To be a paladin is to be alone.  He must always walk a delicate knife-edge; he must on one hand be a warrior to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies.  On the other hand, he must be chivalrous, honorable, benevolent, self-sacrificing.It *is* tough to be a paladin.  Do you know what blackguards are?  The paladins that failed.  The paladins that couldn't walk that knife-edge between lawful and good.  The paladins who weren't strong enough.And, on top of that, paladins are judged more harshly than others.  They must toe the line, and if they make one misstep,  even and unintentional one, then they are punished harshly and severely.  A paladin must be the one at the forefront of the battle, who charges into the ambush even though he knows it is there, and who smites his foe ruthlessly, yet forgives them immediately upon accepting their surrender.   A paladin must be kind and merciful and at the same time ferocious.  You see what I'm getting at?  A paladin is a bundle of contradictions and those that can't take it...there's a name for them - ex-paladin.Yes, it *is* tough being a paladin.  And yes it *is* tough to RP a paladin.  And, yes, DM's are often found to be paladin-haters.  But that is life....And I do think Joan of Arc is a good example of a real-life Paladin.  She was called by God to take up the sword for her people.  Isn't that what a paladin is all about?  Just because she didn't specifically Detect Evil or Lay on Hands whenever she was wounded, doesn't mean she wasn't a paladin.  It just means she wasn't a DnD  paladin.  There is a difference.Sorry if I'm not making much sense, but my body is demanding sleep and yet I just can't resist getting in on this argument.</blockquote>

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