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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ukyo the undead" data-source="post: 812158" data-attributes="member: 1670">A little long but i think i showed my point. Sorry for bad spelling.If I understood correctly, stoping the child death would stop the ritual.And killing the mage would be the best chance the paladin has to do it, even if it's not a 100% certain one.Well, as a paladin I would kill the mage and try to avoid the child to fall into the pit.The paladin is in a extreme situation here. His personal beliefs are in a dead end, since his family is about to die, and its is the main portfolio of his goddess.On the other hand, he is LG, and his goddes are probably LG, maybe NG( a LN god dont fit in a Love and Family portfolio).So, he have to choose between a personal( his love for his family members)  and a short term god ruling( dont kill or let die family members, probably), or a long term god intent( Spread the respect for the family and the love in it trought the world, and keep the goodnes(love) and order(family) in the world).The paladin have to do the right thing: kill the mage and stop it from destroying the family and love in others families( a army of fiends would probably do that, since it would destroy the world, specially if they are CE), like he did to the paladin's family.Later, he would mourn for his wife death, take her to a temple of her goddess, pray to her to bring her wife back to life and, if she don´t get raised from death, keep doing his job as a paladin, since probably her goddess have a good motive( or maybe a "god motive") to let her dead.Of course, I am assuming the DM is not a big <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, who just want to put the paladin in a no win situation, and interpreting any action you do as a reason to strip the character of his paladin status and frustrate the player. If he is, find another group, because he is a jerk and probably not a friend of yours.</blockquote>

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