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Message: <blockquote data-quote="recentcoin" data-source="post: 2878925" data-attributes="member: 41203">Possibly PermissableI'd allow it.  How about a Paladin devoted to a fertility goddess?  While I agree that it might not be suitable for a game with children, since when the the whole dang world have to be "child-proofed"?  I'm going to clue you folks in on a basic tenet of human nature.  Everyone has vices.  No one is perfect - I don't care what oath you took.  The man who doesn't admit his vices is the priest who molests children, the nurse who murders her patients, the serial killer who keeps tasty tokens in his freezer.  I'd much rather trust a man who admits he drinks, plays poker, and chases the girls around the brothel.  I'd certianly trust him before I'd trust the young self-riteous pip that came to find him.  Point one - he's not forced the girls in any way and in fact the statement was made that he need not pay.  He's chosen to pay since that is their profession.  Point two - He doesn't appear to be married so he's probably not doing anything that would be termed a technical violation of his vows since chastity doesn't seem to be a requirement.Point three - His final statement is something that can easily be echoed, in more modern times, by any police man or soldier.  I've heard very similar words come from a Marine I know.  Next time you see one, you might try saying "Thanks" instead of calling them names.Point four  - The sterotype of paladins as goody-two shoes who lack depth is only fueled by narrowminded DM's who only want to let players do what "everyone else does".  You've taken something that is supposed to be imaginative and turned it into a conformists club.  DULL!!!  B-O-R-I-N-G.    Point five - Since when did sexual absitence become a requirement for a paladin?  I would think that this might vary based on the order.  Many of the pantheons have gods and goddesses that are devoted to aspects of fertility, childbirth, etc.  One might suspect that procreation might be encouraged amongst some of these orders - if nothing else as a way to increase the sheer number of worshipers.  Point six - Basing your understading of paladins on the Knights Templar is dubious at best.  They may have been chaste but they were some greedy sons of b's otherwise.  They amassed a huge fortune in short order.  In short, they don't quite measure up in reality to the medeval ideal of the chivalrous knight.  That's my bit on the whole thing.  It sounds more like the difference between the green recruit who's all gung-ho and the middle-aged Sergant who's been in combat before reacting to their orders.My 2 cents,RecentCoin</blockquote>

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