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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boxstop7" data-source="post: 488268" data-attributes="member: 8804">Holy crazed over-reaction, Batman!  So I'm assuming the player had taken a neutral race and thrown it into a LG character class.  And he claims his character wouldn't know that killing those gypsies was wrong b/c he wasn't from the surface?  Yet he was a paladin??  Heck, that justification has been used to start holy wars since the dawn of time.  And that's exactly the road this guy could take if he chose to follow that logic.  He could just wander the land killing anyone who showed any sign of evil or corruption (which would be just about everyone, since no one is infallable).  This character was doomed from creation, IMO.  Even if the gypsies did reek ever-so-faintly of evil, they had done NOTHING to the party to warrant any reaction at all, let alone a slaughter.  Say the party had stayed there overnight, and when they awoke some of their gear had been stolen and the gypsies were nowhere to be found.  That still wouldn't justify killing all of them.  At that point, the paladin would want to find them and turn them in for robbery.  Ignorance and holiness are NEVER justifications for massacre.  Had I been in your position, that paladin's god may have struck back for such a heinous act.  You're exactly right: paladins are defenders, not offenders.  At the very least, his paladin brethren should be looking for him, for he has disgraced their name and their order.  And the party might think about turning him in.  Otherwise, they're accessories to the murder.  Yup, player was definitely out of line.  Hell, his character should be detecting fumes of evil from himself after that display.~Box</blockquote>

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