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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Madmage" data-source="post: 6113258" data-attributes="member: 6693380">I'd say he'd respect those rules that are both lawful and good in both letter and spirit. If the laws were just in spirit but not in letter. Say lying is illegal in the local town, but if it incurred a death penalty, the Paladin would not lie himself but if he caught someone in a white lie he'd also be motivated by mercy to let the person "go" because the law is oppressive. If the letter of the law was somehow just while the spirit was not he'd try to convince the authorities to take into account the spirit. For example, a tyrant enacts a law that forces his political enemies to pay a substantial amount of taxes and part of it was used to pay for charitable endeavours to win the popularity of the populace and also weaken his rivals' power, the Paladin would support the law but work to have the populace realize that said political enemies (if good themselves) were responsible for the monies and/or have the law be applied equally to both the tyrant's enemies and the tyrant's allies. Assuming of course the Paladin was not in a position to take down the tyranny in the first place. A good example. Well done! The code reads: "A paladin must be of lawful good alignment and loses all class abilities if she ever willingly commits an evil act. Additionally, a paladin's code requires that she respect legitimate authority, act with honor (not lying, not cheating, not using poison, and so forth), help those in need (provided they do not use the help for evil or chaotic ends), and punish those who harm or threaten innocents."The Planescape planar cosmology would offer that Celestia or the planes of Law and Good could bestow those powers too.</blockquote>

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