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<blockquote data-quote="Allandaros" data-source="post: 3133563" data-attributes="member: 30073">Er, you realize that Abraham Van Helsing was from the novel Dracula, right? Bram Stoker? Father of All Vampires (unless you're playing White Wolf, in which case it's Caine)?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Ahem.I submit an alternative thought experiment. Consider the same situation, but instead of having a ghost as the undead, it's a lich. (And suppose that the paladin's able to kill off the lich just as easily.) In this situation, I doubt that people would be so quick to judge the paladin. I mean, dude, a LICH. They're all evil and undead and creepifying mage-like and stuff. Another point - I'm not sure that it's fair to say the paladin is responsible for the deaths of the villagers. A man leans on a wall, which looks to be sturdy. Turns out that the wall is actually really flimsy, and leaning on it causes it to collapse and kill the doggy on the other side. The man may feel really bad (and should!) but there's no reasonable way for him to have known that the wall was going to collapse if he leaned on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allandaros, post: 3133563, member: 30073"] Er, you realize that Abraham Van Helsing was from the novel [i]Dracula[/i], right? Bram Stoker? Father of All Vampires (unless you're playing White Wolf, in which case it's Caine)? :p Ahem. I submit an alternative thought experiment. Consider the same situation, but instead of having a ghost as the undead, it's a lich. (And suppose that the paladin's able to kill off the lich just as easily.) In this situation, I doubt that people would be so quick to judge the paladin. I mean, dude, a LICH. They're all evil and undead and creepifying mage-like and stuff. Another point - I'm not sure that it's fair to say the paladin is responsible for the deaths of the villagers. A man leans on a wall, which looks to be sturdy. Turns out that the wall is actually really flimsy, and leaning on it causes it to collapse and kill the doggy on the other side. The man may feel really bad (and should!) but there's no reasonable way for him to have known that the wall was going to collapse if he leaned on it. [/QUOTE]

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