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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zyzzyr" data-source="post: 1206289" data-attributes="member: 1867">I think there's really two different issues here.1) Did the paladin break his moral code?2) Is the paladin the merciful type?There are all kinds of paladins - ferocious ones (fighting on a warfront against orcs, e.g.), merciful ones (helping out peasants), and so on.  Paladins can be lazy, ignorant, friendly, brooding, merciless, generous, and so on.  Paladins do not need to be perfect.  Paladins do not all need to be the same.A1) The paladin didn't break his moral code.  Maybe he did not perfectly interpret the abbot's orders, but that's not a break of the code.  Maybe a warning from the church.  A2) The paladin is *clearly* not merciful.  No attempt to knock the kids out, then perhaps have them turn away?  He's obviously much more powerful than them, and he could have taken them prisoner.  Instead, he mows them down one by one.The truth is, that's fine.  BUT (and this is a big but) he has just defined his character.  The player has just defined that paladin as one who will not take prisoners unless there are major doubts as to guilt.  He walks a fine line between paladinhood and tyranny, but that's ok.  Gods sometimes need paladins like that.  (As an aside, I would expect that this kind of fervour would spill out into other aspects of his character - he's also quite belligerent when someone disagrees with him, he believes his god is by far the best god, and so on).So the question is really that of character consistency.  He hasn't done anything super-evil, but he HAS laid down a very definite path for his character to walk.The most important point here is that paladins are different, and he's basically told you what he wants his paladin to be like.(What are his god's tenets?  Destroy evil wherever it is found? Convert all you meet to good?)</blockquote>

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