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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DiFier" data-source="post: 1502740" data-attributes="member: 2345">I think that blackguard is a european (perhaps english) term for an evil person.   I don't know exactally what it means but it doesn't always mean paladin of an evil god.  I think this may be where the argument begins.  The first time I ever heard of a blackguard was dealing with D&D.  but the term was not coined by the D&D people.  recently while reading one of the patric O'brian novels (You know the basis of Master and Commander)  They refered to the ruffian, street urchin children as blackguards now I'm pretty sure that they didn't mean that they were members of the Blackguard PrC.  O'Brian tries to be historically accurate so I'm guessing he didn't get the term from D&D.  Seems to me that Alzrius assumed that blackguard ment D&D blackguard and I can see where that assumption would come from.  say Blackguard on a D&D message board and people will think of the PrC.  especially if they don't know about the european (?) term.  of course there is nothing specific in the original description that would make this blackguard a D&D Blackguard.  I assume that Hong had heard the term as meaning an evil person.  he knew that it was also the name of a PrC but didn't see anything that made this charachter a mener of that PrC.   If there was an evil B <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> st <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> rd PrC you wouldn't assume that every time somecalled someone an evil B <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> st <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> rd they were talking about the PrC.  As for the concept: it would give a DM a lot to throw at a PC, even if he were converted prior to the begining of play.  he'd still have a reputation and many people who had heard of his conversion would not believe it.  evil NPC may try to follow him.  thinking that he is still evil or may do evil stuff in his name.  plus he would have the internal conflict.</blockquote>

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