Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 1958355" data-attributes="member: 2268">To answer your original question, after reading the description of your concept, I'd say "Yes, with a few reservations".The whole "brothel" bit doesn't disturb me one bit. Just because prostitution is "morally" vilified in most western societies around here, doesn't mean it can't have a different take that actually allows prostitutes to be viewed as normal part of society and allow them to "stay" normal persons.What bothers me a little more is the whole cynism/end of the world view Cedric takes. Being convinced that everything is lost anyway, that no matter what he does, it won't make an impact on the world, and that all the good he does will vanish when he is dead is, at best, resignation, at worst it is despair. Both usually stem from doubts that are confirmed time and time again. The point is that a paladin seldom doubts. He is immune to fear, and doubt in most of its forms is rooted in fear. A paladin doesn't fear, so he rarely doubts.The whole look and demeanor stem from this cynism and resignation, and I'd ask you to adjust that if you wanted to play Cedric as an active paladin in one of my campaigns. Paladins radiate hope, not cynism, and lead through example as well as through words, and that goes for their demeanor as well as their looks. That doesn't mean they have to spend hours a day to polish their armor or weapons, but a clean look and polite behaviour is the minimal requirement I'd ask towards everyday life.On the other hand, as a paladin who's lost his powers after doing a good deed which resulted (unwittingly) in an evil end, and who's not ready yet to break through all the despair and doubt that swarmed his mind all of a sudden, he'd be brilliant. One or two adventures that show him that not all is in vain, and at some point, a "redemption" scenario. That's how I'd handle Cedric as a DM.So, hope I could help a little. <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=":)" /> Sorry for not going into the fine points of a paladin's code of conduct, or alignment issues...but all that wasn't necessary for me to answer your question. And well...I guess those points already took up 10 pages.  <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>

Verification