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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2041348" data-attributes="member: 2013">I hope this won't lock the thread due to a religion reference, but unless I miss my mark, my impression was that the Catholic church had no small amount of influence in those days and that fornication and adultery - which means brothels - were &quot;evil sins&quot; in the dogma of said church.&nbsp; I only bring this up because the paladin is a &quot;holy warrior&quot; and as such if you're claiming to model the world on the medieval period, it makes sense to model his religion on the dominant &quot;holy&quot; medieval religion, local cultures notwithstanding.Fair enough.&nbsp; Using the RAW (which include alignments for all beings), I can get away with: &quot;Killing is an evil act, with the following enumerated exceptions:&quot;(1) &quot;killing anything with an evil alignment is not evil&quot;(2) &quot;killing anything with a good alignment is not evil only if it is in direct defense of a character's (PC or NPC) life, lawfully-deserved freedom (i.e., no obstruction of justice), or limb&quot;(3) &quot;killing anything with a neutral alignment is not evil if that thing is at the time of battle acting in concert with those of evil alignment&quot;(4) &quot;killing anything with a neutral alignment is not evil if it is in direct defense of a character's life, lawfully-deserved freedom, or limb.&quot;Will that do? <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 2041348, member: 2013"] I hope this won't lock the thread due to a religion reference, but unless I miss my mark, my impression was that the Catholic church had no small amount of influence in those days and that fornication and adultery - which means brothels - were "evil sins" in the dogma of said church. I only bring this up because the paladin is a "holy warrior" and as such if you're claiming to model the world on the medieval period, it makes sense to model his religion on the dominant "holy" medieval religion, local cultures notwithstanding. Fair enough. Using the RAW (which include alignments for all beings), I can get away with: "Killing is an evil act, with the following enumerated exceptions:" (1) "killing anything with an evil alignment is not evil" (2) "killing anything with a good alignment is not evil only if it is in direct defense of a character's (PC or NPC) life, lawfully-deserved freedom (i.e., no obstruction of justice), or limb" (3) "killing anything with a neutral alignment is not evil if that thing is at the time of battle acting in concert with those of evil alignment" (4) "killing anything with a neutral alignment is not evil if it is in direct defense of a character's life, lawfully-deserved freedom, or limb." Will that do? :) --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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