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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1145015" data-attributes="member: 3146">Believe it or not, paladins need not kill every evil thing they meet--even if it has scales.If a paladin encounters an evil baker who shuts down a soup kitchen because the riff raff it attracts are bad for business, would he be obliged to kill the baker because of his code? Of course not.How about a womanizing lout who knocked up the mayor's dauther and then abandoned her as "used goods"? Probably not.The neighboring empire that is at peace with the paladin's kingdom but has an evil state religion that corrupted the hearts of a majority of its citizens. The paladin probably won't like them but he isn't obliged to wipe them all out.The kobolds and their dragon aren't any different. If the paladin judges that they are (or will be--the idea that a paladin shouldn't act until the bad guys are ready to wipe out the entire world is silly) a threat to good communities in the area and that he has the skill, strength, and companions to be successful in his endeavor (the paladin accomplishes nothing by getting himself and his allies killed in a hopeless and unnecessary battle), he would have reason to attack them. Even then, however, I don't believe that the paladin's code would require it. Some threats can (or must) be dealt with without slaughter.</blockquote>