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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2707448" data-attributes="member: 24969">What would I do to the Paladin? Probably nothing. Paladins are a derivitive of fighter and they kill. That's their job. Was the halfling killed unjustly? Doesn't sound like it. If such a deliberate action warrented loss of Paladinhood, I would typically warn the player at the time seeing that a lifetime of training as a Paladin would give him that moment of choice even if the player doesn't see it. If the character acted with justified reasoning but it turned out to be bad, such that the halfling was actually trying to help the people in question but never was able to say such, then the paladin might be forced to atone (perhaps immediatly, perhaps upon find out, depending on the magnitude of the mistake). In this case, it seems like the paladin did what paladins do, found those that deserved to be killed and killed them. If as a DM I felt that they were doing so for the wrong reason and it was a big enough mistake, I would have warned him so and let him make the choice. Even then, I don't see such an act as great enough to warrent punishement unless part of a trend.</blockquote>