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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3971721" data-attributes="member: 8439">Thinking about the beginning of <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0245562/" target="_blank">Windtalkers</a> (never saw it all the way through) last night, and of course my train of thought came around to "Could/would a paladin accept an assignment like that and carry it out? What about just a garden variety Good character?"For those not familiar with the movie, it centers on the use of the Navajo language as a code base in the WWII Japanese theater. (With native speakers as the code holders.) In the film, Nick Cage is a marine paired as a "bodyguard" for one of the original codetalker volunteers. What Cage is told (but his charge is not) is that he is only a bodyguard up to the point where there is a significant risk of capture and then he is to kill his charge. As he puts in later in the film when letting the Navajo in on the real deal "You Codetalkers are important, that's why they stuck me on your ass. But nobody's as important as the code. Japanese got hold of a Codetalker, Codetalker talks, code's useless. I didn't have a choice. My order's to protect the code."I can easily see adapting this plot to a D&D game, where sensitive messages are carried by an individual who has been rendered immune to divinations. But since there is still the possibility of compulsions or garden variety torture, the messenger's bodyguard for the journey also has a failsafe order to kill the messenger if capture is a serious risk. In order to maintain close approximation to the movie, the messenger would be a volunteer and unaware that there is a failsafe order.In such a plot, would you consider carrying out the failsafe order to be a Good, Neutral or Evil act? If you were playing a Good character, would you feel that accepting the bodyguard mission was in character? Would a Paladin fall?</blockquote>

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