**Spoilers** I'm going to running this very soon, had a ? regarding the tome of Lorrimor

[warpi9]

So I'm gonna be running this very soon,

questions:

and in the beggining the PC's receive tomes to be delivered, the tomes are highly associated with evil. One of my players is a paladin, what's to stop him from destroying the tomes? And if he does are they a neccessity for the future of this campaign apart from their delivery? IE do they appear elsewhere, like they are stolen from the university?

I need an answer asap.

[Cardinal Chunder]

If he is determined to destroy them then there is little you can do to stop him. They aren't important really just a link into book two.

The angle I used (Pharasmin Inquisitor player)is that the books are important to study and understand the mindset of the BBG in order to help combat them...Destroying them would do nothing to help combat the spread of these foul practices but using them (at the possible personal risk of your soul) is a necessary evil.

[Tybid]

answers:

Well, if he does so then the entire group doesn't get payed their inheritance (I should stress that's what I would do). In the off chance he is a paladin of Abadar that would give him reason not to right there.

It is also the dying wish of a man who should have been his friend and you could stress to him that the law states the final wishes of the deceased should be followed implicitly.

Judge Daramid will likely be quite upset but may use their destruction as leverage to get them to work as deputies for the defense. They don't come up in the later parts of the path unless you want them to.

[Spacelard]

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[Spacelard]

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[Spacelard]

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[warpi9]

Thanks for the responses. I was thinking of the dying wish angle and the importance of the books for study, but yeah there's no real way to stop him from destroying them.

[Pan]

Boy, it sounds like you are in for a long campaign if this pally is going to destroy every evil thing he comes across.

[Valkir]

Personally I see the decision to destroy the tomes as a player decision, and not a Paladin fiat. While some characters (and not just Pallies) could have reason to destroy the tomes, it's also very reasonable to see the books as tools to learn about evil, so that evil can be confronted and defeated. If he has concerns about how the books will be used I could see a stalwart champion of good interviewing the recipients, or investigating them, to learn of their past, and theorize about their intentions. Nothing gets the point across like a heavily armored and armed man with a decent Charisma handing over a book and saying "Ensure that I never have cause to regret handing this to you."