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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6266963" data-attributes="member: 4937">Being tricked into gross misconduct - burning down an orphanage because someone told you the kids were really monsters in disguise or even simply because you were more willing to sacrifice innocents than risk your own skin - in my opinion would be (more than) sufficiant to count as a violation.   At some point, it doesn't matter what you intended to accomplish or how you justify yourself.  Ultimately, a LG Paladin doesn't get to judge and review his own actions; he is accountable to higher authority.I might accept that this might not be true CG 'paladin', whose superior might well accept the Paladin's assertion that - even if he was being disobedient - he was acting according to his own consciousness provided it seemed an honest and fair answer.  However, even a CG superior might well question whether the CG 'paladin' had sufficient good judgment to continue representing him.Basically, I'd say put yourself in the 'shoes' of the Paladin's superior (generally, some LG deity), and ask yourself whether you (if you had the same beliefs as the NPC) would continue supporting the Paladin.</blockquote>