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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5689621" data-attributes="member: 2205">I think the basic problem is that alignment is a topic that is subject to a fair bit of personal interpretation.  And the paladin's code of conduct have never been spelled out in any splatbook that I'm aware of (there's probably one somewhere out there in 2e-land that I'm not aware of, but as I said; I'm not aware of it.)  So the code becomes, basically, just "be really lawful good, which of course is subject to personal interpretation."Add to that the notion that nobody much likes someone else stepping in and telling them how they should run their character, and how they should interpret their own character's code of behavior, and I think any amount of prescriptive brainstorming on a place like this isn't going to accomplish much of anything in terms of reducing alignment arguments.  Because at the end of the day, if I have a notion in my mind about what my paladin character's code of conduct entails (or doesn't) then anyone else getting in my shorts and telling me what they think a paladin should be doing, even my DM, is--quite simply--overstepping his bounds and messing in something that's not really any of his business.</blockquote>