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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgoroth" data-source="post: 6113162" data-attributes="member: 6674889">I get your point, but since there are many ways to do acts of goodness, shouldn't the champion of a god follow the examples of their respective scriptures? Surely there must be precedents or styles to follow, rules and traditions. Those things don't matter much to the happy ranger or barbarian who all want to free the slaves too.A paladin would do it even if it meant he got killed in the process, or had to give the shirt off his back to do it. I agree that a personal code of ethics doesn't mean you obey the law of the land blindly, but a holy order of knights should value social stability as a good means to provide and achieve a good life for the people against the encroaching of the agents of evil and chaos at the city gates. It's a chaotic world out there....I can't even stomach all the potholes in my old city! And people die from those, from car accidents. Laws enable you to have a safe, reliable, predictable way of life, that's what LG means to me. Not too many people envy the simple life of a barbarian, or the rustic solitude of a ranger, but life outside the city is often brutish and short. A neutral good Paladin would be more like a high level paladin who enacts his own vision of what makes society Just and True, i.e. his "neutrality" along the chaos/law axis (or libertation freedom vs orderly axis) is something that he can champion. So sure, since there are NG gods, they should be supported too. Or NG oaths, that's fine, but then where does their magic come from? I thought DDN wasn't supposed to have magical martial characters. There still has to be either divine or arcane or something else powering his oaths</blockquote>

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