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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferghis" data-source="post: 3233149" data-attributes="member: 40483">If you do have the authority to judge someone, remember that where a normal tribunal might condemn the act, a paladin might not, becuase you have a strong obligation to give the benefit of the doubt, which prevails over a mere probability of guilt. In other words, if you're not dang sure the guy's done the bad deed, you gotta let him go, even if you think he's the one. While regular law enforcement might just take the guy, beat him until he fesses up, and then sentence some forced labor. So having authority might actually turn out to be more of a pain in the neck than just handing over a prisoner to some other authority.The cases that confuse me the most are where authority conflicts with good. So you catch the fact that the sheriff is evil, but he's still the one formally empowered to administer justice. That's a tough call in my book. Especially if I only have the alignment to go on, but no evil acts...When the number of enemies is over a certain amount and acheives a certain homogeny, you can call the enemy an army, and the rules of war are different. There you can flank, use missile weapons (the bigger the better), use tactical advantage, oil and siege weaponry. As long as you are leading your troops, not doing anything shady (no poison, no ambush, no hostages) offer a chance to surrender if the odds are clearly in your favor, and always be open to parley, you should be okay.</blockquote>

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