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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demmero" data-source="post: 2713041" data-attributes="member: 13641">Excellent point, and probably right on the money for what the paladin in this case did.  Selective hearing.  Selective reasoning.  Perhaps selective picking of his god's tenets to justify his actions.  To quote the PHB, "Heironeous promotes justice, valor, chivalry, and honor."He could cry "Chivalry!" to try to explain away his actions, but it'd be a warped sort of chivalry where you don't actually help the damsel in distress while she's being assaulted but instead worry more about catching and dealing with her attackers.Likewise, he could cry "Justice!" and say that's what he dealt to the halfling accomplice.  You'd get some arguments (11 pages so far) as to whether such an execution counts as "justice," however.What about the valor of Heironeous?  Is that what we see when the paladin farts around with a flunky out in the street while the big crime's happening up in his bedroom where his wife is being assaulted?Do we see the honor of Heironeous in the way the captive halfling is executed?I'm not saying that a paladin of Heironeous should always stop and make sure he's honoring all four of these tenets before doing an action, or that all four of these things need to be present in every single action he does.  But he should have a decent working knowledge of how to mesh all or most of these tenets into a code he can live and be a paladin by.  When he clearly ignores one of his god's tenets to twist around another tenet to justify an action...well, he's not doing Heironeous' will, he's doing his own.</blockquote>

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