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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mrtauntaun" data-source="post: 1498669" data-attributes="member: 14429">A lot of these treads focus on all of the same types of themes.  Myself, I love to play paladins, always have.  I enjoy being the shining becon of light.  I enjoy being a 'stick in the mud' about the little things, but as my characters grow older and advance in level, they tend to undergo a transformation.  They gain greater insight, come to know they can't go it alone, and to rely on his friends and allies.  It is up to the player to best play his character and interpreting the code.  If the DM demands strict adhearence to the code, then that's a bad DM.  I have even played a fallen paladin, an action i took quite deliberately because my character objected to the current situation.  A lot of players take the attitude "I've fallen from grace, screw it, im making a new character".  What a lot of players don't relize is that attempting to regain your blessed status can be an awful lot of fun!  Attonement can take many forms, and a creative DM can make for hours of enjoyable gamplay out of it.I've also read that Paladins can not travel or work with Evil PCs.  Also not true.  If the Evil player is truly creative, and a bit sneaky, it can be pulled off.  Case and point, I played in a campaign (playing a paladin at the time) where my group was teleported back in time to a period of civil war, thousands of years previous.  Shortly after we arrived, my character died in my most glorious death EVER (but that's another story).  I had an apprentice, another player started taking paladin levels and was my pupil.  Now that he was without a teacher, he took the role of party leader and paladin upon himself.  The new character I created was evil to the core.  A NE wizard, but the DM allowed me to start with a magic ring which prevented attempts to detect my alignment, thusly revealing an absence of evil to the paladins detect evil.  Throughout the course of many, many adventrues, i convinced the other players i was a patriot being held prisoner unjustly by one of the warring factions.  I did everything a good character would, rescued the characters, stuck my neck out, etc, all because it fit with this characters goals.  He used the PCs to get what he wanted.  The players helped him destroy all other warring factions, which he told them were evil and cruel, and returned to their own time.  They were puzzeled why i wanted my character to remain behind, but when they consulted a history tome in their now-different present, they saw that my character became a ruthless dicatator, reignin for hundreds of years governing a vast evil empire.  I barely escaped that evening with my skin <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=":)" />There are lots of ways to get around working with a paladin in the group, I hope this little (too long) tale helped open a few doors to that degree.</blockquote>

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