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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7148292" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>See, I just see that saying my character wouldn't do that being called out as a problem again and again, but sometimes that is exactly the situation you find yourself in.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I make a Paladin of Devotion, it works fine for the most part, but then halfway through the campaign the party wants me to lie to a judge I befriended to get our informant out of jail. I tell them "my character won't do that" because lying to an authority figure like that completely goes against my character, am I really in the wrong? I'm not saying the Paladin goes and confesses our crimes to the Judge and helps hunt down the party for breaking the law, I'm just saying he is not going to lie to the judge, just like he has always never lied to the judge, because becoming a liar breaks with his oath and the basis of his character. </p><p></p><p></p><p>If I'm playing a follower of Waukeen who is the goddess of trade and economics, and the party wants to use illusion magic to purchase something we need, my character should object. His entire religion is based around the value of money and making sure the flow of trade works, using counterfeit coins is literally blasphemy against his goddess. </p><p></p><p></p><p>If saying "my character wouldn't do that" is always wrong and should be avoided, then the only way to do that is to make characters who never hold any sort of beliefs or codes at all. Unless you are going into a session zero and talking about every single moral question that could come up and agreeing on all holding the exact same set of beliefs. Neither one sounds exactly reasonable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7148292, member: 6801228"] See, I just see that saying my character wouldn't do that being called out as a problem again and again, but sometimes that is exactly the situation you find yourself in. I make a Paladin of Devotion, it works fine for the most part, but then halfway through the campaign the party wants me to lie to a judge I befriended to get our informant out of jail. I tell them "my character won't do that" because lying to an authority figure like that completely goes against my character, am I really in the wrong? I'm not saying the Paladin goes and confesses our crimes to the Judge and helps hunt down the party for breaking the law, I'm just saying he is not going to lie to the judge, just like he has always never lied to the judge, because becoming a liar breaks with his oath and the basis of his character. If I'm playing a follower of Waukeen who is the goddess of trade and economics, and the party wants to use illusion magic to purchase something we need, my character should object. His entire religion is based around the value of money and making sure the flow of trade works, using counterfeit coins is literally blasphemy against his goddess. If saying "my character wouldn't do that" is always wrong and should be avoided, then the only way to do that is to make characters who never hold any sort of beliefs or codes at all. Unless you are going into a session zero and talking about every single moral question that could come up and agreeing on all holding the exact same set of beliefs. Neither one sounds exactly reasonable. [/QUOTE]
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