In my mind "Falling" is a Paladin's Gods way of saying you have screwed the pooch so many times you are incapable of using your powers properly. Until you show that you can, you are just a guy with a sword.
Of coarse there are so many threads on Paladins falling it's crazy.
Usually it's the GM that sets up the Fall as it is the player/character's folly.
Why would you want your character loose his powers? Surely a righteous Paladin can survive in a world of Drow. That should be the ultimate tribute to his god.
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Drow city?
Get shoved at the top of a stairwell.
You have a crisis of faith. You realize that the code you've upheld doesn't 'work' for this place. For every person you spare, for every person who you've given the benefit of the doubt, its come back to haunt you. That one Drow you let go? Thats a Dwarf family you find dead with their calling card. The look on the child's face as the Drow poison pumps through them, terrified and filled with dread, even in death is enough to break you.
You realize that while you would have the grace of your power, you think its better to finish the job without power and stop future problems.
You hit them and they get back up, I hit them and they stay down.
While you may want a 'full-tilt' would it make sense with your character or is the gradual temptation more believable? I think determining this makes a huge difference.
You can go with the "by any means necessary approach". Instead of doing things the "good guy" way go with the easiest route to get solve the problem, even if it means innocent people get hurt. A "sacrifice the few to save the many" would help, but remember that your party(PC's not players) may not want to associate with you anymore if you are evil and/or if they feel like you have gone too far. However, the players may also have a problem with this.
If you just go far enough to be the anti-hero that would make you "not good", and not a paladin, but if you actually go chaotic evil the party would have a good reason not to trust you.
Well, I'm interested in a 180-degree, full-tilt fall. Maybe even damnation feats. Antipaladin levels, and all that good (evil?) stuff. I'd find it fascinating to roleplay, and it would be a welcome change from the paladin in the previous, associated campaign, who was incredibly bland roleplay-wise. And figuring out why this person became evil: Was it "necessary"? Was it out of convenience?
Is this an evil game? what are the Alignments of the rest of the players? Is the GM on board with a complete alignment change?
Asking around, I think we've got LG and LE in our party already. GM has handled CE before, and so long as there isn't too much backstabbing, everything should be fine.
I think you have been on here long enough to read about people's woes about being in a CE party. As long as you are adult about it no trouble should come from it. People always say that a Chaotic Evil game always ends badly. So hopefully your GM knows when things are going in the wrong direction and to correct things quickly.
Good Luck.
A pit trap would work well to make the paladin fall.
Here's a helpful guide to give you an idea of how to convincingly play Chaotic Evil, and what a character's reasons and justifications for being Chaotic Evil could be.
Well, I'm interested in a 180-degree, full-tilt fall. Maybe even damnation feats. Antipaladin levels, and all that good (evil?) stuff. I'd find it fascinating to roleplay, and it would be a welcome change from the paladin in the previous, associated campaign, who was incredibly bland roleplay-wise. And figuring out why this person became evil: Was it "necessary"? Was it out of convenience?
Oh, and this particular GM likes tossing around lots of plot-controlling enemies who we are not meant to be able to fight by a long shot (CR+8), so as a Paladin, I'd have to compromise or ally with evil characters left and right to avoid being turned into a smoking crater or a head-kersploded corpse. I'll probably be able to find some CR-appropriate or lower enemies to beat up later on, though.
By GM fiat. Without their agreement you can fall easily but won't become an anti-paladin. Become to much of a disruption to the campaign and you might find your character the victim of a localised rock fall where only your character dies.
@wraithstrike, not if he still thinks hes good. The party wouldnt like what hes become of course, but as long as they can see he still thinks hes on the side of good and sees them as allies they dont have to mistrust him. He would betray anyone he sees as evil, but in his deluded state he still doesnt see his friends as evil.
The only danger would be if they tried to stop him, but that can be solved in two ways:
1. talk with the party before hand and see if theyre ok with it and if their characters would reluctantly allow his methods. Hes likely their friend, so theyre not likely to just abandon him, especially if they have to work with evil either way
2. If they are likely to intervene, just have your character maintain enough of his sanity to never see his friends as "the bad guys". If they stop him from murdering someone, he grumbles angrily about it but he wont fight them over it.
I agree that it varies by party. I was only saying what could happen, not what would happen.
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Lets see...you slaughtered, then burnt down an entire town to stop the plague from spreading to the rest of the continent. You went to the frozen north to find a legendary sword to destroy the demonlord who was behind the plague. You picked up the sword, and it stole your soul. Congratulations, you're now an Antipaladin =)
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If High level paladin, burn the city to the ground, without thinking about children and innocents, assuming everyone is guilty.
If low level, extract revenge for something done to you.
Alternative: When you are about to level up, imagine yourself that you went crazy, take a level of barbarian and kill as much people as possible. This should change your aligment and, therefore, make you fall.