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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2778558" data-attributes="member: 12706">Both.However, in my opinion, a good role-model is NOT necessarily someone who is perfect; perfect role-models can actually be discouraging to those who would follow their example and fail to live up to them. A good role-model is someone who legitimately tries (rather than just paying lip service) and sincerely repents their failings. Cedric may be blurring the lines a bit - you get the feeling that once upon a time, he failed and repented, but after a while he grew cynical enough for his feelings about it to become a little hollow.I'd allow him, though. In my opinion, he's a Good guy, and he fills a more important niche in gaming than being a role-model - he's an interesting character. And, after all, isn't the reason we play, in part, to sit around later bs-ing about cool things about characters we've played? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I'd be disappointed, though, if any potential DM of this character didn't have a story arc going that means the reason Cedric hasn't lost his powers is that he's needed by his deity for some specific purpose. Which ends with Cedric cleaning up his act, or becoming something other than Paladin (in a way that doesn't screw the player).</blockquote>