This insinuates that a Lawful Good character goes about promoting "Good" is a "Lawful" manner.In my opinion it is more a violation of a Paladin's Code of Conduct to let the situation be than to allow the prisoner's to be sold as slaves.
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This insinuates that a Lawful Good character goes about promoting "Good" in a "Lawful" manner.
In my opinion it is more a violation of a Paladin's Code of Conduct to let the situation be and to allow the prisoner's to be sold as slaves.
The Jedi *cough* I mean... Paladin council would like to have a word with you about this "potentium heresy".The player doesn't have to be correct; his/her character just has to *intend* to do the right (i.e., LG) thing.
:) I know!
However, the epic storyline of a jedi *cough* paladin failing works best when you don't just strip the paladin of powers. You have to let them dig their own grave; the player says "oh s##&" when the consequences become clear, not when they lose their powers by DM fiat. Then the player gets to have a role in the epic consequences, rather than the DM just railroading the player. The player gets to decide whether the guilt associated with being wrong sends his/her character over the brink, or if his/her sanity becomes a bit frayed at the edges, but not so much that blindly pushing forward is impossible. You don't know where it will lead, necessarily, but it will lead to something more interesting than, "oh, I think that's not LG so you lose your powers." "What? That sucks."
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Honestly, I'd never considered this when I ran a game. It seems obvious now. It's actually in line with what I used to do in SWRPG. When someone was taking what seemed like a questionable action, but wasn't outright "dark" according to the rules I would usually ask what their character was feeling. If they killed every baddie in a room without trying to capture any because they were angry, it might merit a dark side point. If they did it because they felt it was the only way to proceed effectively or mitigate other circumstances and they were deliberately reigning in any "dark" emotions, I generally didn't make an issue of it unless they started going over the top.