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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1742285" data-attributes="member: 63">Your question is a bit hard to understand, since you phrased it a bit oddly.&nbsp; But heck, I'll chime in.Two paladins from my experience.The first is one I played in a modern game - Jenny Windgrave, a Christian Native American woman fighting the supernatural in Savannah, Georgia, where she attended art school.&nbsp; Seeing as the modern world is rarely as black and white as traditional fantasy, it was very hard to have a convincing 'holy warrior' without being a nut.&nbsp; Jenny took the goal of promoting the forces of good and order as a societal role.&nbsp; Since she was working in a sort of secret organization that tried to combat magic-users, she wasn't often in a position to volunteer time for society at large.&nbsp; Instead, her goal was to protect her allies against physical danger, and to encourage them to become better people by talking with them whenever they were troubled with spiritual or emotional concerns.&nbsp; It didn't work sadly, because most of the other members of the group were too aggressively anti-establishment to want to take advice from anyone, especially not a Christian theater productions major.Jenny didn't really believe evil existed.&nbsp; There's just goodness, apathy, and selfishness.&nbsp; She never thought any person (human or fey) would actively want to hurt someone else without having a reason, and she always tried to talk her way out of conflict, finding the reason and resolving the conflict non-violently.&nbsp; But when that didn't work, she was willing to stand in the way of danger.I say stand in the way because she actually wasn't that good at fighting.&nbsp; When she was 2nd level she nearly got killed by a single zombie.&nbsp; Middle of a graveyard - stab, whiff, slam attack, whiff, move and stab, whiff, slam attack, ouch, move and stab, inconsequential damage, charging slam, knocked over, grapple on the ground.&nbsp; Struggle for three rounds with minimal damage dealt to the zombie, before an ally comes over and cuts off the thing's head in one hit.&nbsp; *grin*&nbsp;The second paladin was a little stranger, and I won't go into him in detail now, but he was Stanely Deadtree, the only priest of Zorok, the Three-Headed Chicken God of Everything.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 1742285, member: 63"] Your question is a bit hard to understand, since you phrased it a bit oddly. But heck, I'll chime in. Two paladins from my experience. The first is one I played in a modern game - Jenny Windgrave, a Christian Native American woman fighting the supernatural in Savannah, Georgia, where she attended art school. Seeing as the modern world is rarely as black and white as traditional fantasy, it was very hard to have a convincing 'holy warrior' without being a nut. Jenny took the goal of promoting the forces of good and order as a societal role. Since she was working in a sort of secret organization that tried to combat magic-users, she wasn't often in a position to volunteer time for society at large. Instead, her goal was to protect her allies against physical danger, and to encourage them to become better people by talking with them whenever they were troubled with spiritual or emotional concerns. It [i]didn't work[/i] sadly, because most of the other members of the group were too aggressively anti-establishment to want to take advice from anyone, especially not a Christian theater productions major. Jenny didn't really believe evil existed. There's just goodness, apathy, and selfishness. She never thought any person (human or fey) would actively want to hurt someone else without having a reason, and she always tried to talk her way out of conflict, finding the reason and resolving the conflict non-violently. But when that didn't work, she was willing to stand in the way of danger. I say stand in the way because she actually wasn't that good at fighting. When she was 2nd level she nearly got killed by a single zombie. Middle of a graveyard - stab, whiff, slam attack, whiff, move and stab, whiff, slam attack, ouch, move and stab, inconsequential damage, charging slam, knocked over, grapple on the ground. Struggle for three rounds with minimal damage dealt to the zombie, before an ally comes over and cuts off the thing's head in one hit. *grin* The second paladin was a little stranger, and I won't go into him in detail now, but he was Stanely Deadtree, the only priest of Zorok, the Three-Headed Chicken God of Everything. [/QUOTE]

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