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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kvantum" data-source="post: 1252160" data-attributes="member: 1905">Well, the dumbest example I've ever seen was in my relatively long-going(getting up near two years now) online game. I play a paladin/divine champion of Mystra, and no, this is not about me losing my paladinhood. This story concerns another player in the game, who shall remain (relatively) nameless.W., as I shall refer to her, is not exactly the best role-player, or the best power gamer, or... well, anyway, W. had just killed off yet another of her characters (she gets bored frequently too) and so she decided to play a character that suited her personality a bit more. A paladin of Sune. (And yes, they're legal. They're mentioned in the FRCS, IIRC.) Flighty and a bit vain she could play with no problem, or so the DM and I thought. Well, W. has a bit of a reputation amongst our circle of friends, so I figured I'd make the best of it and start up a little betting pool (only IC money, dammit). I had my money on 2-3 hours before she'd lose her paladinhood. Anyway, we started playing, and immediately our two paladins didn't get along. They argued the whole way through the session, right past the first hour, and then the second, and then about 30 minutes into the third hour, I picked another fight with her. Now W. claims I baited her into the exact statement that cost her her paladinhood, but it was just a blurted out kind of thing. "My goddess can kick your goddess's skanky butt" was my opening. Now, in retrospect, saying such a thing about a goddess who was clearly on the side of good might have been cause for me to need to say some prayers of atonement, perhaps make a donation to a Sunite church to avoid any long term reprecussions... but W.'s response was just classic W. "My goddess may be a skanky ho but yours..." And then ZAPPO. I don't care how loosely your god takes vows for his or her paladins, but calling your own deity that is never a good idea. And W. certainly paid the price. Any follower of Sune who wakes up to find she now looks like a troll certainly has some words to reconsider.Needless to say I was quite happy that it happened by accident, during my square of the pool. Made a nice chunk of gp off that.W.'s troll-looking paladin? Well, she had a chance to rp her way back into Sune's good graces through an important quest. W. got bored with that whole storyline and let her paladin run away in shame before she made up a druid.(And if anybody who knows W. reads this, I tell the story with all the love I have for her. Even good friends can royally tear into one another every so often <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/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</blockquote>

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