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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5666108" data-attributes="member: 54846">Especially because that campaign deals with lawless areas and pirates and the like:You need to consider how your paladin reacts to evil. This would relate to the God you follow, as well as your personality. I don't know if PF paladins can detect evil, but there's a few issues on how paladins react to evil. How does the paladin react to evil NPCs that walk by or that they meet in general? A merchant may ping on the Detect Evil scale because he's callous, cheats his customers and on his taxes. A Lawful Stupid (LS) paladin would want to put him to the sword because he's evil. A LG paladin might either refuse to buy/sell from him, distrust/avoid him, try to convert him, or pity/sympathy him but not intervene.If an evil NPC offers aid or to ally, how will the paladin react? If an evil NPC surrenders, does the paladin execute them or free them (as I understand it, that AP will be doing things away from civilization so there are no jails and judges).This also applies to other partymembers doing it. Is the paladin going to stand by idly when PCs kill prisoners, or torture them for info?There's also "doing the Right thing vs. Needless Sacrifice". Some LS paladin types can't accept backing down from confrontation with Evil, because it's Evil, and allowing it to exist is Not Ok. Let me give an example:If a lone, low level paladin happens upon a vampire attacking a girl, what does he do? He can attack the vampire, allowing the girl to escape, but because he is not powerful enough to kill the vampire, he will die and it will live to kill again. Or he could retreat, unfortunately sacrificing the girl, but by gather help and hunting the vampire down, he ensures the vampire will be vanquished.</blockquote>

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