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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
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Subject: Re: response to 2 queries on paladins
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 15:06:02 EDT
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In article <241@tropix.UUCP> mpc@tropix.UUCP (Michael P. Capron ) writes:
>My view:
>Paladin's will not discriminate on the basis of a creatures alignment.  They
>may associate with anyone who acts in what the paladin deems a 
>  ...
>In any event, paladins should be a pain to anyone who commits evil or unlawful
>acts in their presence. 

Should a paladin judge people by their alignments, or their actions?
When our party, in which I am a Paladin, first produced a Charter
dictating how party-members should behave, shortly afterwards a new
player joined us. A chaotic evil dwarven fighter, Gladys.
Gladys stayed with the party for some time, and never did anything
even mildly naughty (the Charter was strictly enforced by the most
powerful faction, by far, in the party). Our characters were never
given cause to suspect, so we never did Know Alignment.
But even if my paladin had known she was evil, on what grounds can
he expell her from the party? .
(this isn't directed specifically at you, Michael, but at Joe Public)

> ...
>commit crimes.  This does not mean that the paladin is required to go out of
>his way to find out what the party thief does around town....


Hmm. A paladin's conscience might prick if he suspected that a party-member
was fleecing innocent merchants. Perhaps he might ask the thief:
"Have you been out fleecing innocent merchants?"
"Certainly not" says the thief.

-Nige Gale