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So one of the groups I'm in is using some of the horror adventures rules when it comes to corruptions, each player rolled a die at the beginning of the campaign and the gm gave a hidden corruption to activate on that player later on. The idea in my opinion was cool,

now here is where my Rp delema comes in. I'm playing a Paladin oath against fiend archtype (campaign is monster hunters I'm the demon slayer) well after yesterday's game the group came across a demon that apparently had some sort of Familia connection To me. Part of my back story was that his older brother was an aasimer, well apparently his bloodline has been changed slightly by the gm that he has both celestial and abyssal bloodties and the encounter awoken his "demonic" side which I found out was because I rolled hellbound. The Rp issue I'm running into is how do you role play a demonic paladin that slays demons?
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Look up Vampire Hunter D or Blade, both half-vampires that hunt and kill vampires. You don't have to hate yourself or be angsty. You are more well suited than most to fight the taint of your blood. To use it as a weapon.

Show no mercy.

You could have a fiery hatred for that part of your history, which drives you to find a way to rewrite your very blood.

Alternately, you could have him slowly see demons as less and less of an enemy, until he falls and becomes an Antipaladin.
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Or Devil May Cry

The point is: you're a Paladin. At the end of the day you're kind of a stubborn sonofagun. This may test your characters faith, but don't let it pull them away from their mission.

Honestly, I think your DM is messing with you OR he needs to check his fiendish blood types. The Hellbound corruption is purposed for devils (hell, LE), not demons (abyss, CE).
If you still have an abyssal connection, at least that's not what causes your corruption. It's the devil in your blood.
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Xemnas wrote:
The Rp issue I'm running into is how do you role play a demonic paladin that slays demons?

Not hard, if your Int score isn't below 10.

Is your paladin a demon? No.
Is there a dilemma? No.

Take a look at your type and subtype. If your brother was aasimar, presumably you're human. So humanoid(human). Which isn't outsider(evil,demon). If you're not a demon, you're not a demon, regardless of if an ancestor was or not. It's like getting a transfusion. Sure, there's something you don't like in your blood, but it's not you.

Move on.
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Is your Paladin a Demon slayer or a Devil slayer? Because those are two different things, and Hellbound, as mentioned above, deals with Devils. Devils, being LE, absolutely HATE Demons, which are CE. So working with Devils and destroying the heck out of Demons are not only not mutually exclusive, but can even be complimentary.

Now, how much does your demon slayer hate demons? How far is he willing to go to hunt demons? What is he willing to sacrifice in order to see demons destroyed? What allies is he willing to stomach for kill demons? What lines is he willing to cross in his oath against demons?

You have a wonderful RP opportunity here for a Paladin with the good intention to fight demons. And we all known what good intentions pave.

Embrace the corruption and let it lead you to becoming an anti-paladin. :) it's s legit second option.
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Sorry it was an erineas, that's my fault. And I said abyssal as a mistake.

And he is a slayer of basically all evil outsiders, devils, and other. Basically if it is an outsider and evil he aims to hunt it down and vanquish it. I said demon slayer because I felt it encapsulated everything but that is an misnomer.

Unfortunately we are playing with the vile coruptions so no matter what I have to take the stain, which just makes me want to take the blessing as well do to the blessing being better payoffs than the bonus to resist the corruption. The biggest part that concerns me is the alignment identifiers, another paladin or anything that wont work for an evil character would Identify me as Lawful Evil
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Xemnas wrote:

Sorry it was an erineas, that's my fault. And I said abyssal as a mistake.

And he is a slayer of basically all evil outsiders, devils, and other. Basically if it is an outsider and evil he aims to hunt it down and vanquish it. I said demon slayer because I felt it encapsulated everything but that is an misnomer.

Unfortunately we are playing with the vile coruptions so no matter what I have to take the stain, which just makes me want to take the blessing as well do to the blessing being better payoffs than the bonus to resist the corruption. The biggest part that concerns me is the alignment identifiers, another paladin or anything that wont work for an evil character would Identify me as Lawful Evil

If you, and perhaps more importantly, your paladin would rather squeeze that extra bit of strength from your situation than work against your hatred/the forces of evil, it may be that paladinhood no longer fits them.

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Since even one step of corruption would alter your aligment, I would think you would want to cure that corruption as quickly as possible. Otherwise, you are one saving throw away from becoming an ex-paladin.
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David knott 242 wrote:

Since even one step of corruption would alter your aligment, I would think you would want to cure that corruption as quickly as possible. Otherwise, you are one saving throw away from becoming an ex-paladin.

Because the corruption is in the blood he would have to find the Devil that "Spawned" him and kill it as well as atone. I don't see getting that done in an in game month before the first save against the corruption. luckily his will save is decent. and currently is only manifestation level 1 so its a 16 to pass.

Edit: Wait Hellbound is whenever I have an oprotunity to skrew someone over by taking advantage of a situation. That may happen a lot more often then a month
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Could the Aasimar heritage be Perikin?

That might work, I am all for twisted backgrounds, but this all seems a bit over-manipulated to me.
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So apparently I missed something the DM said at the beginning of the campaign and that he was not going to enforce total alignment restrictions. As he described it after our last session, as long as you don't stray more than 2 spaces in any direction from your starting alignment it wont be penalized. So I can go either CG TN or LE for my character. But Classes Like paladin, at the start had to be some form of Lawful due to their Oath/Code. So this issue is no longer a problem, I feel he clarified this because the paladin and Druid have significant possibilities of losing all class abilities.
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Hellknight it up, then.

After a series of Horrible rolls this character is now dead. 2 Nat 1s on corruption checks followed by a 4, needless to say I made an example of that particular die(it is now a fine powder) So I am having to reroll now and trying to find a new character to play.
Liberty's Edge

take an archetype that embraces corruption ;)

Blight Druid!
Xemnas wrote:
The Rp issue I'm running into is how do you role play a demonic paladin that slays demons?

The sins of your forebears are only yours to repeat if you actually repeat them. Unless this new blood history has a way to force you to change how you think, the values you held yesterday are just as valid today.

Xemnas wrote:
[...]the encounter awoken his "demonic" side [...] The Rp issue I'm running into is how do you role play a demonic paladin that slays demons?

Not a dilemma, great possibilities. He could develop an internal struggle between his paladin code or beliefs and his slowly more and more developing demonic side. Maybe this side makes him want to do "not so good" things, i.e. kill a prisoner rather than interrogating him, but his good side wants to prevent him from doing this. Maybe this demonic side grows and grows, making it harder to resist, finally he could give in to this side and do something really evil, he has to live now with.

Be careful though, this could lead to being killed by your own party, if you are not careful ;)

I'm enjoying the direction the last couple of posts are going, but bear in mind the character in question is now dead.

But maybe other players' characters in need of advice are not. A truly good character with a dark side is ... not quite innovative ;)
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