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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1251825" data-attributes="member: 508">Yeah, reading over my explanation it does look kind of like it was a setup...which, I guess it was, but I thought I had made the situation pretty clear in-game.  When the ex-paladin was given his sealed scroll and his "mission," his superior gave him the "this is your last chance" speech, kind of going over the list of his paladin code failings (which was rather lengthy).  He pretty much drummed it into the ex-paladin's head that his greatest failing as a paladin was a lack of caring for other people, and a "me first" attitude in pretty much everything he did.  (Once, after having defeated a gnome illusionist that had been bilking peasants of their hard-earned money using a "troll bridge toll collector" illusion, the paladin refused to return the money to the peasant community.  It actually came to inter-party blows that time, resulting in returning most of the money to the peasants after the paladin took what he considered his fair reward for helping drive off the evil gnome.  This resulted in the NPC cleric leaving the party in disgust...which, come to think of it, was why the paladin was the only means of healing when the scout fell into the pit trap.)So yes, you may have failed at that tailor-made "quest," Lord Pendragon - but you probably wouldn't have been in that specific situation, either.  I'd have probably come up with a different test had there been a different reason for the PC having lost his paladinhood.JohnathanP.S. - How ironic, my 666th post is about paladins.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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