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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZSutherland" data-source="post: 3665729" data-attributes="member: 7638">QFT.  Jedi are fully within their rights to do a great many things that would make a paladin into a featless fighter, and vice versa.  Any DM who forgets this needs to go back and read the flavor-text of the Force chapter in RCR again.  There are certainly some similarities, and I can see where the confusion arises, but they are not the same.Both Paladin's and Jedi can and will kill to protect the innocent, neither can seek vengance, etc.  The stark difference, though, is that a Jedi is "not a moral creature."  The Jedi's actions must be within accordance with the will of the Force, not the strictures of a code of conduct.  A Paladin may draw strength from those emotions that we generally consider positive, such as courage, love, and honor.  The Jedi must avoid these emotions just as assiduously as he avoids anger, fear, and hatred, because they cause him to focus on -his- wants and desires over the will of the Force.  That is why selfish action is what leads to the Dark Side.  Remember, Anakin's first step down the path to the Dark Side was not anger or fear or hatred.  It was love.</blockquote>