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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3293450" data-attributes="member: 4937">Then you are golden.You can only commit lies of omission with people whom your duty to them compels you to be forthright with them - people like your lord, your spouse, your family, etc.&nbsp; Other people have no claim on you that obligates you to reveal anything to them at all, least of all someone who may in fact be in the final test your enemy.&nbsp; Be careful how much obligation you accumulate with respect to other party members.&nbsp; Friendship is a very serious thing.Don't forget that while the Paladin is lawful good, they are also a lawful good soldier.&nbsp; The chivilric code is a warrior code.&nbsp; You have the right to bear arms and are empowered to dispense justice by the sword.&nbsp; It's a good bet that you are legally a magistrate, although your jurisdiction may well be limited depending on how the DM runs the campaign and how much attention he pays to that sort of thing.&nbsp; Your duty will require you to hurt people from time to time, even ones that aren't strictly speaking 'bad people'.&nbsp; So you are probably better off phrasing the Paladin's world view as someone who is trying to fulfill her oaths without hurting anyone more than she has to, and who sincerely means that.&nbsp; As you say, you can't take the easy way out. Good job.&nbsp; The surest way to get in trouble as a Paladin is open your mouth. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've never played Paladin, but I've DMed alot of groups and in my experience its that last part which seems like it should be the hardest part of playing a Paladin.&nbsp; If the muttering was all 'in character', then your fine.&nbsp; The problem is that alot of groups will have one or more players who 'out of character' detest the notion of a Paladin and think that it interferes with the way that as far as they are concerned the game should be played.&nbsp; In trying to bring to life a LG character, you tend to start running a foul of the real life personalities (and dare I say alignments) of the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3293450, member: 4937"] Then you are golden. You can only commit lies of omission with people whom your duty to them compels you to be forthright with them - people like your lord, your spouse, your family, etc. Other people have no claim on you that obligates you to reveal anything to them at all, least of all someone who may in fact be in the final test your enemy. Be careful how much obligation you accumulate with respect to other party members. Friendship is a very serious thing. Don't forget that while the Paladin is lawful good, they are also a lawful good soldier. The chivilric code is a warrior code. You have the right to bear arms and are empowered to dispense justice by the sword. It's a good bet that you are legally a magistrate, although your jurisdiction may well be limited depending on how the DM runs the campaign and how much attention he pays to that sort of thing. Your duty will require you to hurt people from time to time, even ones that aren't strictly speaking 'bad people'. So you are probably better off phrasing the Paladin's world view as someone who is trying to fulfill her oaths without hurting anyone more than she has to, and who sincerely means that. As you say, you can't take the easy way out. Good job. The surest way to get in trouble as a Paladin is open your mouth. :) I've never played Paladin, but I've DMed alot of groups and in my experience its that last part which seems like it should be the hardest part of playing a Paladin. If the muttering was all 'in character', then your fine. The problem is that alot of groups will have one or more players who 'out of character' detest the notion of a Paladin and think that it interferes with the way that as far as they are concerned the game should be played. In trying to bring to life a LG character, you tend to start running a foul of the real life personalities (and dare I say alignments) of the players. [/QUOTE]

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