All of these highly productive and insightful paladin threads on the boards in recent weeks got me to thinking about Anti-Paladins.
Suppose an anti-paladin comes upon a puppy in the street. Is it a good act to not kick it? What if it's in a city controlled by orcs and kicking puppies is mandated by law? Can the anti-paladin kick the puppy because it's evil or would he have to not kick the puppy because it's chaotic?
In order:
1. A puppy is an iconic symbol of goodness and innocence, as are kittens and to some extent butterflies. It is imperative to kick unless you are lulling it into a false sense of complacency before you do something worse.
2. If the city is controlled by orcs and puppy-kicking is mandatory, the anti-paladin, to both evil and chaotic, should instead cross the "moral event horizon" as it is currently called on TVtropes.org. The trope used to be called "rape the dog."
As puppies are Dogs with the young template, they are neutral, so you are under no obligation to kick them.
If said puppies where blink dogs however, I would decree you stripped of your powers on a non-kicking motion unless non-kicking furthered some loftier, more evil goal.
you clearly need to train the cutest one to bite good children in the crotch. Just watch Southpark.
forcing a wizard to cast exploding runes on the puppies is also pretty cool. If you are a half-orc, you might want to bite their heads of in public.
Is it evil for an alchemist to put a delayed bomb in a puppy if he's certain an anti-paladin will kick it?
Use Dust of Illusion on a cockatrice instead.
Hilarity ensues.