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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6115428" data-attributes="member: 6696971">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6688858-Libramarian" target="_blank">Libramarian</a> Something akin to MHRP's Milestone system that I wrote upthread would do the job quite well.  You could set it up one of two ways but both would be premised upon a system of (lets say) maybe 3 Virtues/Oaths that are specific.  For instance:Loyalty - Gain (a Thematic Boon or a 'Virtue' point) when backing a friend/ally's play puts you or something precious to you in danger or when you refuse to back your friend/ally's play because doing so would violate your your God's trust.Sacrifice - Gain (a Thematic Boon or a 'Virtue' point) when you either put yourself in mortal danger for your allies or when you find yourself the last man standing.Vengeance - Gain (a Thematic Boon or a 'Virtue' point) when you slay the target of your Oath or when your target slips through your grasp because you deem the cost of pursuit too great to continue.This works because you have specific, focused thematic material that the GM can set up challenging situations around.  You can have a dial that plays to several different playstyles.  1 - You can have the GM make this call on each of these oaths/virtues and award a predetermined thematic boon associated with the oath/virtue (a diplomacy or charm bonus, a use of some kind of heroic intercession ability, a use of holy smite).2 - You can have the player set these up each time they invoke one of their oaths in play and use it in one of the ways above, instead of gaining a specific thematic boon, the player can earn a "Virtue Point".  There could be a Virtue Point Economy that they can cash in during conflicts with a prayer for divine intervention or invocation of the favor of their God in the way of coincidental assets for their group or complications for the enemy, luck/favor, or raw divine power.That, to me, would make for thematically rich Paladin play that rewards the tension and duty of lining up with a specific ethos.  And the second version would give a Paladin player a fun ethos mini-game to play and narrative authority to impose upon the fiction by the creation of thematic content/advantage.</blockquote>

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