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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 436060" data-attributes="member: 4720">SHARK,Perhaps I read more into your posts than was there.  I think we got the impression that they were more indiscriminate than you're saying.I still think living by a stricter code is the way I will continue to play paladins.  Granted, my paladins haven't been involved in wars.  Nothing larger than skirmishes, in that sense.  I haven't even tried to build a character that could become a general.  For one thing, my one military history course didn't cover the tactical use of Fireball and Chain Lightning. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  For another, it hasn't been an option in the campaigns with which I've been involved.  And for a third, nobody I've ever played with has had mechanics for it, or felt the need for them (probably because of #2)That's one of the reasons I used the necromancer example rather than a war example.  That's closer to the kind of situation my paladin characters have encountered.As far as your gnoll example, I didn't respond for a couple reasons.  You made it clear that in your campaign, they are purely evil.  If you come across irredeemable evil creatures who are your enemy, I can see the wisdom in the course of action you're suggesting.  Doesn't mean I would do it, but I can see your point.  And since I doubt either of us is going to budge on that issue, I didn't see much point in going over it.  Personally, I prefer a campaign where any reasoning being has the potential for good or evil.  That makes everybody's job harder, but especially the paladin's.  If the possibility exists that those gnolls are refugees fleeing the enemy you're marching to fight, it's an entirely different situation.  But again, your example didn't include that possibility.I also tend to subscribe to the "all creatures" deserve compassion rule, to a point.  Evil creatures most certainly can and do give up their right to compassion.  It's similar to my RL belief that you lose your rights the minute you take away the rights of someone else.  But it's not indiscriminate, and judgements generally need to be made on a case-by-case basis.  And that makes sense in the games I've played because the only creatures that were sentient and weren't Free Moral Agents were most Outsiders and, as far as I know, Vampires.So, at any rate, we're dealing with very different worlds and worldviews.</blockquote>

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