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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Fitz" data-source="post: 985781" data-attributes="member: 3949">I think one of the reasons Paladins have this whole, &quot;Kill evil, kill it dead, don't talk to evil, kill it.&quot; notion is that they had strictures on association. Remember that? They couldn't even associate with neutral people for a long time, let alone be civil to an evil person. That rule encouraged constant use of detect evil, and the wanton slaughter of anyone who set off the evil geiger counter. Because paladins are &quot;called&quot; I think they should get a divine conscience (the DM) giving them helpful hints. After all LG almost presupposes predetermination and a LG god that called a particular paladin had its reasons for doing so. I am tough on a paladin's behavior, but I try to give them a heads up before they screw up. If the paladin screws up, not only did he screw up, but a god chose poorly. A paladin of a Norse or Japanese tradition should have no problem killing the bad guys and then having the cleric extract info from their lifeless corpses. Sacrifice the bad guys to Odin or Thor and get information for your sacrifice; make the enemy die an honorable death for their liege, but get the information for the glory of your liege as well, no problems there. The intrinsic value of sentient life is a cultural thing, and not all cultures observe it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Larry Fitz, post: 985781, member: 3949"] I think one of the reasons Paladins have this whole, "Kill evil, kill it dead, don't talk to evil, kill it." notion is that they had strictures on [i] association[/i]. Remember that? They couldn't even associate with neutral people for a long time, let alone be civil to an evil person. That rule encouraged constant use of detect evil, and the wanton slaughter of anyone who set off the evil geiger counter. Because paladins are "called" I think they should get a divine conscience (the DM) giving them helpful hints. After all LG almost presupposes predetermination and a LG god that called a particular paladin had its reasons for doing so. I am tough on a paladin's behavior, but I try to give them a heads up before they screw up. If the paladin screws up, not only did he screw up, but a god chose poorly. A paladin of a Norse or Japanese tradition should have no problem killing the bad guys and then having the cleric extract info from their lifeless corpses. Sacrifice the bad guys to Odin or Thor and get information for your sacrifice; make the enemy die an honorable death for their liege, but get the information for the glory of your liege as well, no problems there. The intrinsic value of sentient life is a cultural thing, and not all cultures observe it. [/QUOTE]

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