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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferghis" data-source="post: 3233800" data-attributes="member: 40483">This is a pretty heavy one, but it's true. If the party you are with starts to do something bad, it reflects on your paladin. So you cannot let them. This leads to the annoying result that the paladin behaving as "sheperd" of the rest of the party, with the exception of a cleric or priest of his god, who can almost order him about. You should talk about this briefly with the other players, just to ward off possible irritation.There will be some situations where you are damned if you do, damned if you don't. Someone mentioned using a bow in dire circumstances (to save the innocent from evil). Many knightly restrictions (stemming from tradition) can be overcome, in my opinion, if the situation warrants it. You can strike a woman if she is an evil wizard about to do evil. But the act will warrant contrition and penance, which plays out in religious rituals, usually, or with greater sanctions imposed by a high level cleric of the paladin's faith, in the case of more striking violations of the knightly code. Accepting these penances are part of being a paladin, in my mind.</blockquote>