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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turtlejay" data-source="post: 5043634" data-attributes="member: 70267">Of course that is your opinion, but history is filled with examples of people with dissimilar goals and values working and living together.  One example that springs to mind is embedded Journalists with soldiers at war.  They are not fighters, and many may not be comfortable with killing, yet they live and work among the soldiers. If you have a good RP reason to be with the party, you will stay with them and try to do good through *your* actions.  I had a 3.5 Cleric of the Sovreign Host that was conflicted about killing.  Every time a combat with sentient creatures was finished, he took time to administer rites to them, and placed a silver coin in their mouths to pay the Keeper (a bit of a heretic, sure).  He was complicit with the killings, but his world view about the souls of the dead being freed from their evil existence allowed him to participate.  He had become quite attatched to the party members, in particular a Warforged, and would not abandon them when things got hairy. You can call that Pragmatic, or Hypocritical, or whatever you want, but people are people, whether real or imaginary.  They don't have to be rational or make sense.  If the character can rationalize his behavior and still obtain blessings from his Diety, then there is no problem. Jay</blockquote>