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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2543783" data-attributes="member: 198">Why not have the paladin know that he hasn't fallen? Assume (since this will be background for the character, according to the original post) that he encountered a situation and made a choice which, by all the tenets of his religion and everything he knows of his deity, should have made him fall. He's absolutely sure about that and fully expects to have fallen and need severe repentance and atonement. Except all his paladin abilities still work. So now you could play the paladin as incredibly confused and with a major personal quest - to find out what his "non-fall" means. Is his religion wrong about what would lead to a fall? Has he misunderstood his deity all this time? Even worse, are his powers coming from something other than his deity? How does he find out what the truth is? After all, if he shows up to his local temple and says, "I should be a fallen paladin but I'm doing just fine, thank you. What do you think that means?", he'll probably get some confused looks at best.Lots of options for roleplaying, and frankly, a red letter invitation for your DM to do some interesting stuff with the individual paladin and his faith in general.</blockquote>