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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 433823" data-attributes="member: 264">Hey SHARK, Wonderful as always to see another tidbit of your Vallorean Empire campaign. I say this every time you post something like this; but I would totally purchase a published campaign setting (pront or PDF) of it.Anyway, Paladins.The Paladins in my campaign are not exactly textbook D&D Paladins. I always thought that the textbook D&D Paladins clove rather more closely to the "Good" aspects of their alignments that the "lawful", my paladins don't.My Paladins are a little closer to The Jedi Knights were they led by Stannis Baratheon from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books.The Paladins in my campaign are not wandering do-gooders, they are an elite force of warrior zealots who answer to no temporal authority. Not Kings, Not Priests, not anyone but their own leaders.Commoners are almost loathe to "call in the Paladins" in all but the most dire circumstances. Though the Order would definitely answer a call to deal with a Vampiric infestation of a slum neighbourhood (for example), when they were done they would most likely keep "dealing" with all manner of other "problems" in the neighbourhood; from the more obvious actions, such as rounding up all prostitutes and driving them from the area ("The beginnings of reclaiming the neighbourhood from lawlessness"), or the capture and very public punishment of Organized Crimelords (usually maiming/blinding), to the removal from family of children whom the Order feels are not being raised "correctly", the Paladin's touch is felt long past the time they have dealt with the "menace".They answer to no temporal authority. Should they step outside the bounds of their intended role, their powers vanish. It's the only check or balance to which they pay any attention.They also are not police. You would never see two Paladins dispatched to "check something out". If they arrive on the scene, they arrive in force, generally with magical support, and already know exactly what the situation is.I've probably babbled long enough. But to sum it up, they are a humourless, unpredicatable, dangerous force of nature in a world ruled largely by chaos (not Warhammer Chaos mind you, just plain old Lawlessness for the most part).That's how I use them.If I may make a request: More Vallorean Empire stuff please!</blockquote>

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